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Landowner Not Responsible for Preexisting Groundwater Contamination
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2003.tb10286.x
Subject(s) - contamination , groundwater contamination , groundwater , environmental remediation , environmental science , supreme court , contaminated land , water resource management , environmental protection , law , aquifer , geology , political science , ecology , geotechnical engineering , biology
The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia has determined that a preexisting contamination on undeveloped land was not a source of groundwater contamination, as the term source is defined within a state regulation that requires remediation by any person who owns or operates a source of contamination.