Claims under Pennsylvania’s Hazardous Site Cleanup Act must be brought within 20 years after a spill is first discovered, a Jefferson County Common Pleas judge ruled on a claim that the owners of a industrial site should pay to remediate decades old contamination.
Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge John H. Foradora wrote in Ingros v. BFG Electroplating, PICS Case No. 07-0045 (C.P. Jefferson Dec. 15, 2006) Foradora, J. (10 pages) that the initial discovery of unlawful conduct or release triggers the 20-year statute of limitations on the Hazardous Site Cleanup Act, not the discovery that the event has affected a particular piece of property.
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