Anne Arundel County v. Norair Engineering Corp.

Appellee, Norair Engineering Corporation (Norair), contracted with appellant, Anne Arundel County (the County), to construct in the County the Broadneck Wastewater Treatment Plant. After construction was well under way a large outfall line extending from a chlorine contact chamber to a manhole structure near the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay was discovered to have pulled apart or to have moved to such an extent that the danger of separation appeared imminent, thus producing this litigation.

Norair sued the County for the extra work involved in correction of this problem. The matter was tried…