Key legal question
Whether cleanup and disposal costs could be charged to the property owner under environmental water-protection cost rules.
Extracted holding
Yes. As owner of the leaking tank, the appellant was a state of affairs polluter and could be charged for the emergency measures.
Extracted reasoning
Arts. 59 USG and 54 GSchG allow recovery of costs from the polluter; the owner of the hazardous facility was correctly treated as a state polluter.