The University of Washington is seeking to hold Tacoma legally responsible for the cleanup costs of historical contamination leaking from the city’s sewer system onto portions of the university’s Tacoma branch campus, a court filing shows.
UW filed a lawsuit against Tacoma on Wednesday in Pierce County Superior Court, also requesting that a judge order the city to fix the problem, which reportedly dates back decades, according to the lawsuit.
“The University has incurred, and expects to continue incurring, expenses for remedial actions investigating and characterizing the hazardous substances that have migrated, and continue to migrate, onto the Property from the City’s Sewer System,” the lawsuit said…