Northern States Power Co. v. City of Ashland

OPINION AND ORDER

BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge.

From 1885.until 1947, a manufactured gas plant operated in Ashland, Wisconsin, on a bluff above Lake Superior, generating gas for heating and lighting. For that entire time, the. plant discharged tar wastes into the bluff. In 1987, plaintiff Northern States Power Company acquired the plant site and shortly thereafter discovered contamination. It notified the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, which began an investigation of the site in 1994.

In 2002, the entire site, which includes the bluff on which the plant stood, the land below the…