HIPPS ROAD Reversal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

NAVY OFF HOOK AT HIPPS ROAD

A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court's 1995 order that
the Navy pay at least $1.7 million in compensation to 86 people as
compensation for sickness and death caused by pollution at the Hipps
Road Landfill, in Jacksonville, Florida. The Navy had been held liable
because it was the source of much of the toxic stew found at the
Landfill, now a Superfund site.

The appeals court ruled that the Navy had transferred its liability to
the private waste disposal company that hauled the waste from
Jacksonville area Naval bases.

(Florida Times-Union, September 18, 1997)

Lenny Siegel
Director, SFSU CAREER/PRO (and Pacific Studies Center)
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/968-1126
lsiegel@igc.org