Bunker Hill lead smelter.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Under the liability scheme established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) questions of what occurred at a hazardous waste site fifty or even one hundred years ago may be of critical importance. Clarifying roles played by potentially responsible or liable parties requires well-documented historical information on site ownership, management, production processes, and waste disposal methods. Broader questions also may need to be addressed. These may include the state of knowledge concerning environmental and health hazards at the time in which waste-generating activities took place, corporate succession issues, and roles that government agencies played in regulating or controlling activities.

Gaining the knowledge needed to address these questions may require extensive research into the records of government agencies and private corporations. A wide variety of documents and other forms of evidence may also need to be unearthed ranging from land titles, to municipal utility franchises, to Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and historical photographs. Nor is it enough to merely obtain boxloads of documents and other historical materials. To address many of the questions that arise in complex CERCLA cases, information from a wide variety of sources must be extracted, pieced together, and placed in historical context. The expert historians at Morgan, Angel & Associates possess the skills and initiative required to find relevant documents and other historical materials, to compile a lucid and well-documented account of events, and to present findings in a form appropriate to client needs.

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