Abstract
In March 1979 heavy rains flooded a hazardous waste dump at Stringfellow, California, causing it to overflow and discharge contaminated water into the nearby community of Glen Avon. In the fall of 1980 Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA" or "Act"),' popularly known as Superfund, which allows the government to bring actions against the owners and operators of leaking hazardous waste sites and against hazardous waste disposers. In 1983 the government brought a CERCLA action against the owners, operators, and disposers of wastes at Stringfellow. At the time the government brought the clean-up action, the twenty-acre Stringfellow site contained over thirty-four million gallons of hazardous waste contributed by over two hundred different generators. The government estimated that the clean-up would cost between twenty-four and forty million dollars.
Recommended Citation
Rallison, Todd W.
(1987)
"The Threat to Investment in the Hazardous WasteIndustry: An Analysis of Individual and CorporateShareholder Liability Under CERCLA,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 1987:
No.
3, Article 3.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1987/iss3/3