Legal Opinion
Wanaque Borough Sewerage Authority v. Township of West Milford
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided June 26, 1996PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
O’HERN, J.
This appeal concerns the liability of a founding municipality for the debts of a regional sewerage authority. The debts were incurred as planning expenses prior to the provision by the regional authority of waste water treatment facilities to serve the needs of the citizens of the constituent municipalities. Over the twenty-year period between the formation of the concept of a regional authority and the commencement of this lawsuit in 1986, certain of those municipalities had withdrawn from the regional plan. This dispute concerns the…
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