Legal Opinion
City of Pomona v. Sqm North America Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 2, 2014No. 12-55147, 12-55193PublishedCited by 401 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SIMON, District Judge:
After excessive levels of the chemical perchlorate were found in a city’s water system, the city undertook to investigate the source of that contamination and remediate. Using a methodology known as “stable isotope analysis,” a scientist hired by the city determined that the most likely dominant source of the perchlorate found in the city’s groundwater was sodium nitrate that had been used as fertilizer. The sodium nitrate had been imported in large quantities from Chile several decades earlier and had been used as fertilizer over a substantial period of time. The…
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