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Litigation

Feb. 27, 2007

Decades-Old Water Pollution a Font of Municipal Litigation Today

RIALTO - Per ton, it's only 69 cents. But added up, the surcharge is costing $1 million a year for cities that take their trash to a San Bernardino County dump.

By Jason W. Armstrong
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      RIALTO - Per ton, it's only 69 cents. But added up, the surcharge is costing $1 million a year for cities that take their trash to a San Bernardino County dump.
      Now, 11 cities have sued the county, claiming that the county wrongly imposed the fee to help pay for a state-mandated cleanup of a miles-long underground plume of rock...

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