Friday, April 17, 1998 | 11:45 a.m.
STPUD directors on Thursday ordered their legal counsel to research a challenge to the decision last week by the California Water Resources Board.
The state board denied the district's appeal of the civil penalties imposed by the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board in June after two spills of treated wastewater occurred during tests of a new export pipeline.
The spills sent more than 20,000 gallons of treated wastewater into the Upper Truckee River.
District officials insisted the spills were unavoidable accidents associated with the replacement of six miles of aging pipeline, which exports sewage out of the basin to an Alpine County reservoir.
Jim Jones, president of the district's board, said the suit would have to be filed by May 9. The board will meet in special session April 29 to make its decision.
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