Not only do Progressives/Liberals/Democrats attribute undeserved accomplishments, qualities, and characteristics to their favs,,...recall how Libs referred to Obama as 'savior,' 'messiah,' and 'Jesus'....and now pretend they didn't......
...but they do the same with bureaucrats, Leftist academics (just say 'studies show' and watch 'em bow), and agency pencil-pushers.
Like those 'experts' at the EPA....
6. After the cleanup, and collection, reimbursement by the company, the EPA decided further cleanup was needed and required the company to incinerate the dirt to remove "a small residual amount of diluted PCBs," and gasoline at a cost of $9.3 million.
a. Ottati and Goss hired labs, reported that the cleanup had been adequate, and the EPA took them to court. Five years of litigation, and the US District Court of New Hampshire ruled in O and G's favor!
b. Totalist government, having unlimited funds and lawyers, the EPA appealed to the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
Another five years of litigation...and on April 4, 1990, the First Circuit affirmed the district court's, ruling: so Ottati and Goss won....sort of.
Ottati and Goss won the case.....but the company was financially ruined as it turns out...for no good reason.
Read the basis for the EPA 'expert's' actions...to follow.
special pleading much?
Here is the Cause for complaint:
The 35-acre Ottati & Goss/Kingston Steel Drum site contains a 1-acre parcel in the southwestern portion that was leased and known as the Ottati & Goss (O&G) area and a 6-acre Great Lakes Container Corporation (GLCC) area consisting of a rectangular parcel bordered on the east by Route 125. From the late 1950s through 1967, Conway Barrel & Drum Company (CBD) owned the site and performed drum reconditioning operations on the parcel of land later owned by the Great Lakes Container Corporation. The reconditioning operations included caustic rinsing of drums and disposal of the rinse water in a dry well near South Brook. Kingston Steel Drum, the operator of the facility since 1967, continued the same operations as GLCC through 1973. South Brook and Country Pond became polluted, so CBD established leaching pits in an area removed from South Brook. The New Hampshire's Water Supply and Pollution Control Commission reported on-site runoff and seepage from the leaching pits draining into South Brook and eventually into Country Pond, where fish kills occurred. In addition, vegetation along South Brook died and swimmers experienced skin irritations. In 1973, International Mineral & Chemical Corporation (IMC) purchased the drum and reconditioning plant and operated it until 1976. In 1978, heavy sludges from the wash tank and from drains, as well as residues from incinerator operations, were brought to the O&G site for processing. After O&G operations ceased in 1979, the New Hampshire Bureau of Solid Waste Management ordered the owners and operators not to restart operations and to remove approximately 4,400 drums that were at various stages of deterioration and were spilling organic compounds onto the ground. Approximately 450 people live within a 1-mile radius of the site. Most of these residents rely on bedrock wells for their water supply. An estimated 4,500 people live within 3 miles of the site. A marshy area lies downgradient of the site. The Powwow River and Country Pond, which are located nearby, are used for swimming and fishing.
EPA added the site to the National Priorities List in 1983. Initial actions taken at the site included the removal of approximately 12,800 tons of soil, drums and metals; 101,700 tons of flammable sludge; and 6,000 gallons of flammable liquid. Long-term cleanup activities have included building demolition; removal of above-ground and underground storage tanks; the excavation and on-site treatment of approximately 72,000 tons of PCB and VOC-contaminated soils; and the excavation and off-site disposal of approximately 9,500 tons of wetland sediment. The cleanup of ground water to drinking water quality is being achieved through in-situ chemical oxidation. The removal of contaminated soils, building and sediments has reduced the potential for exposure to contamination. These completed actions and other site cleanup activities continue to reduce site contamination levels, making the site safer while the ground water cleanup occurs.-Source:
Ottati and Goss Great Lakes Container Corp. Implementation of the Recovery Act US EPA
You moron.....I just posted the reason the court found against the EPA.
Here it is again:
In his 1993 book "Breaking the Vicious Circle," Stephen Breyer, a Clinton appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court, recounted how cleanup efforts demanded by the EPA 'experts' of Ottati and Goss, by design, achieve very little:
" How much extra safety did this $9.3 million buy? The forty-thousand-page record of this
ten-year effort indicated (and all the parties seemed to agree) that,
without the extra expenditure, the waste dump was clean enough for children playing on the site to eat small amounts of dirt daily for 70 days each year without significant harm.
Burning the soil would have made it clean enough for the children to eat small amounts daily for 245 days per year without significant harm.
But there were no dirt-eating children playing in the area, for it was a swamp. Nor were dirt-eating children likely to appear there, for future building seemed unlikely."
https://law.vanderbilt.edu/files/archive/164_Cleaning_Up_Superfund.pdf
Imbeciles like you simply bend over when big government tells you to.
Seems brains and backbone are simply optional for folks like you, huh?
