Legal Opinion
Jose Ortega Cabrera v. Municipality of Bayamon, Jose Ortega Cabrera v. Municipality of Bayamon Ramon Luis Rivera, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 28, 1980No. 79-1494, 79-1516PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Chief Judge.
Again we address legal and practical problems arising from the lamentable inadequacies of the municipal dump in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Fuller descriptions of the factual background and procedural history are given in our earlier opinion, Ortega Cabrera v. Municipality of Bayamon, 562 F.2d 91 (1st Cir. 1977). For present purposes we need only recall that the dump, intended as a “sanitary landfill” for solid wastes, was constructed at the upper end of a mountainous ravine receiving heavy annual rainfall and situated above the headwaters of a creek flowing into local drinking…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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