Farmer to challenge Clean Water Act tillage ruling

By Mateusz Perkowski at Capital Press

June 21, 2016

A California farmer plans to challenge a recent court ruling that he violated the Clean Water Act by tilling through wetlands in his field.

A federal judge has ruled John Duarte of Tehama County, Calif., should have obtained a Clean Water Act permit to run shanks through the wetlands at a depth of four to six inches, creating furrows prior to planting wheat in a 450-acre pasture.

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