New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection & Acting Administrator v. Dimant

Seeking contribution for costs expended in the investigation and remediation of contaminated groundwater that tainted private wells in Bound Brook, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Administrator of the New Jersey Spill Compensation Fund (hereinafter collectively the DEP), filed this action under the Spill Compensation and Control Act (Spill Act or Act). Although the DEP named several defendants in its complaint, and third-party complaints were filed thereafter, by the time of trial the only direct defendant remaining in the DEP’s case was Sue’s Clothes Hanger…