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An environmental group is hailing a judge's ruling on a disputed water permit for North Anna Power Station. Meanwhile, Dominion power, which owns the nuclear plant on Lake Anna in Louisa County, says it will appeal the decision Friday by Richmond Circuit Court Judge Margaret Spencer. Though both sides are awaiting a written ruling, Spencer sided with the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League's contention that the plant's waste heat treatment facility should be subject to the federal Clean Water Act. Since the plant began operating in the late 1970s, Dominion has contended that the lagoon where heated water from the plant's two reactors is cooled is a waste facility and not a water impoundment. The lagoon, on which there are houses and boat docks, is also known as the lake's hot side. Water from the hot side eventually drains back into the main lake through a dike.