Laura Lundquist

(Missoula Current) A Flathead County judge disagreed with the state’s arguments that a lawsuit challenging a wastewater permit should be dismissed, so a citizens’ case against the Montana Department of Environmental Quality will go forward.

On Nov. 10, Flathead County District Court Judge Danni Coffman denied the state’s request to completely dismiss a case that Citizens for a Better Flathead and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes filed against the DEQ for issuing a wastewater discharge permit to Lakeside County Water and Sewer District. But Coffman did find the state’s arguments convincing enough to dismiss two of the plaintiffs’ four requests.

DEQ attorneys asked the judge to throw the case out, saying Citizens for a Better Flathead had failed to include F

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