May 19, 2007 - The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that the owners of a Killington home were consumer fraud victims in 2000 when a real estate company failed to inform them that the property they were buying had a water supply tainted by a gasoline spill.
The home was one of 36 in the area with water supplies contaminated by MTBE or other contaminants. MTBE is a chemical compound once widely used as a fuel additive, according to an environmental report supplied by the state.
The compound reached the supplies following a 1993 gasoline leak from a 275-gallon underground storage tank at the Summit Lodge on Killington Road, according to Bob Haslam, a senior envirionmental analyst in the firm's Hazardous Waste Division.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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