Maryland’s $2-billion Purple Line light rail project has prevailed in the third and likely final attempt to block the new transit system currently under construction across Washington, D.C.’s northern suburbs.
U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar on April 13 rejected claims by a non-profit organization and two residents that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the federal Clean Water Act by allowing construction-related dredging and other work in streams and wetlands without fully considering other options to improve mobility along the project’s16-mile route.