The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are fighting against having to comply with the Clean Water Act. Instead of fixing its broken roads that bleed sediment into salmon-bearing streams, the federal agencies are opposing new regulations that would hold them accountable for repairs. We think this stinks. The Clean Water Act is an interesting law. Although it is a federal law, it leaves implementation to individual states. In California, we implement the Clean Water Act through the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Under Porter-Cologne, the state is broken into various districts, each with the responsibility to regulate water quality pollution to achieve water quality objectives—roughly that all waters should be drinkable, fishable and swimmable.