Research Reporting Series: Environmental protection technology, Issue 600Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1977 - Environmental engineering |
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... action for money damages , which could be brought either separately or in the same action as the request for an injunction . The damages remedy is more complex in terms of defenses available , recoverable items of damages , burden of ...
... action for money damages , which could be brought either separately or in the same action as the request for an injunction . The damages remedy is more complex in terms of defenses available , recoverable items of damages , burden of ...
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Environmental protection technology. available in an action for injunctive relief are not available in an action for money damages . The defense of " laches " is unavailable , since the action for money damages is governed by an ...
Environmental protection technology. available in an action for injunctive relief are not available in an action for money damages . The defense of " laches " is unavailable , since the action for money damages is governed by an ...
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... action for an injunction , all the facts relating to the reasonableness and usefulness of the land application system . Many damages sought by a claimant instead of injunctive relief would be in theory easier to obtain . The possibility ...
... action for an injunction , all the facts relating to the reasonableness and usefulness of the land application system . Many damages sought by a claimant instead of injunctive relief would be in theory easier to obtain . The possibility ...
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... action . ( 67 ) Groundwater was considered to be simply part of the land , with the land- owner having a proprietary interest in them . He was not restricted in the withdrawal of percolating water located under his land even if the ...
... action . ( 67 ) Groundwater was considered to be simply part of the land , with the land- owner having a proprietary interest in them . He was not restricted in the withdrawal of percolating water located under his land even if the ...
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... action on a theory adopted in several English cases that a person bringing a deleterious substance on his land keeps it at his peril , and is liable for all damage which is the natural consequence of its escape . The court rejected this ...
... action on a theory adopted in several English cases that a person bringing a deleterious substance on his land keeps it at his peril , and is liable for all damage which is the natural consequence of its escape . The court rejected this ...
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Page 69 - This report has been reviewed by the Environmental Protection Agency and approved for publication. Approval does not signify that the contents necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use...
Page 31 - That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized ana acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 13 - If the testimony shows the former to be the nature of the injury, the measure of damages is the difference in value of the property before and after the injury.
Page 68 - Environmental Protection Agency, have been grouped into nine series. These nine broad categories were established to facilitate further development and application of environmental technology. Elimination of traditional grouping was consciously planned to foster technology transfer and a maximum interface in related fields. The nine series are: 1. Environmental Health Effects Research 2. Environmental Protection Technology 3. Ecological Research 4. Environmental Monitoring 5. Socioeconomic Environmental...
Page 23 - ... but that it rather falls within that principle, which gives to the owner of the soil all that lies beneath his surface; that the land immediately below is his property, whether it is solid rock, or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil, part water; that the person who owns the surface may dig therein, and apply all that is there found to his own purposes at his free will and pleasure; and that if, in the exercise of such right, he intercepts or drains off the water collected from underground...
Page 31 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes, subject to existing rights.
Page 41 - Each possessor is legally privileged to make a reasonable use of his land, even though the flow of surface waters is altered thereby and causes some harm to others.
Page 36 - What diminution of quantity, or deterioration in quality, will constitute an invasion of the rights of the first appropriator, will depend upon the special circumstances of each case, considered with reference to the uses to which the water is applied.
Page 7 - For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein...
Page 40 - Owners of land may drain the same in the general course of natural drainage, by constructing open or covered drains...