Assignment:
Question 1. Edward owns property located outside Big City. Edward sells the property to Quality Disposal, Inc which establishes a hazardous waste disposal facility at the site. Quality Disposal accepts only waste transported by Regional Trucking Company exclusively from Consolidated Industries, Inc. several years later. Quality Disposal closes its facility and sells the to Price Rite Corporation, which builds a Price Rite Discount Store on the site. Meanwhile, some of Big City’s citizens complain to the Environment Protection agency (EPA) that Big City’s municipal water supply is polluted. The EPA investigates and discovers that the sources of the pollution are leaks of hazardous waste from what is now the Price Rite property. The EPA investigates and discovers that the sources of the pollution are leaks of hazardous waste from what is now the Price Rite properly. The EPA cleans up the site. Who can be held liable for the cost of cleaning up the site and why? What standards must Big City meet regarding the Water?