The city of Gadsden, Ala., must face a lawsuit by conservation groups over its alleged failure to maintain its sewer system, even though the state filed a similar lawsuit first, a federal judge in the state ruled.
Coosa Riverkeeper’s and three other groups’ complaint is similar to the complaint filed by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, according to the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. But the groups want the court to enforce some conditions of Gadsden’s pollution permit that ADEM doesn’t, the court said, so the case “moves on.”
Still, Judge Corey L. Maze wrote, …
