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Georgia Goes Superfund: A Look At The New Georgia Hazardous Site Response Act, Robert D. Mowrey
Georgia Goes Superfund: A Look At The New Georgia Hazardous Site Response Act, Robert D. Mowrey
Mercer Law Review
The enactment in 1980 of the Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("CERCLA") is commonly attributed to the uproar surrounding the evacuation of the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York. The discovery of thousands of buried drums containing hazardous waste on a Douglas County, Georgia horse farm known as Basket Creek might be considered Georgia's Love Canal, not because of any particular environmental similarities to the Niagara Falls site, but because of the similarities in legislative impact. Just as the publicity surrounding Love Canal gave sudden rise to CERCLA, Basket Creek provided the primary impetus to …