No person shall discharge sewage or other waste, or the effluent of treated sewage or other waste, in any manner which will result in contamination, pollution or a nuisance.
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 5411
Sewage and Other Waste
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case McClellan Ecological Seepage Situation v. Weinberger (1988)
Most recently applied in Coppola v. Smith (March 2013)
Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1447.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.