Tainted Soil Slips Past Red Flags
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When buyers purchase a home or property, they assume that everything about it is clean, perfect, unspoiled and unpoluted. In most cases it is even your legal right to assume this. But not everything may be as it seems. ON what your home built? |
Often, developers of new homes need to fill in depressions on the property, or level off large amounts of the property for landscaping or storm water run-off purposes. Sometimes, even small amounts of wetlands can be filled for the purpose of construction. In every one of these cases, “fill” is necessary. Soil is brought in from various regions in order to level out the land. In many parts of the country, there is a procedure where the soil must be certified as clean — and in most cases every effort is made to ensure that the soil used to fill the void is free of harmful chemicals or contaminants. But what is “tainted fill”?
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