9th Cir.;
12-35831

The court of appeals affirmed a district court judgment. The court held that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation did not violate the Clean Water Act’s prohibition against the addition of pollutants to a navigable water without a permit where the waters transferred from the Klamath Straits Drain, as part of the Bureau’s Klamath Irrigation Project, into the Klamath River were not meaningfully distinct from the waters of the river itself.