Monday, November 16, 2009

Riverkeeper Uses CWA to Challenge Improper CERCLA cleanup

In an interesting coalescence of two different statutes, a company redeveloping a water front Superfund site in Oregon has been sued for violating the Clean Water Act in the process of that redevelopment. According to this article from the Oregon Daily News, Columbia Riverkeepers has sued Chinook Ventures for illegally dumping pollutants it is handling as part of the remediation of a former Reynolds Aluminum manufacturing facility on the Columbia River, using the citizen suit provisions of the Clean Water Act. Chinook is redeveloping the site, which is listed under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), to make into a private port facility. There's not much more out there on the case, but it is noteworthy, insofar as one would assume that a company conducting a CERCLA cleanup would have swarms of environmental consultants supervising the work to limit liability and ensure the work is completed to the Act's standards.

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