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UHL & Associates, Inc. provides litigation support and expert testimony for municipal, industrial, commercial, and private parties involved in water rights and contamination matters. Principals of Uhl have prepared numerous technical documents, expert reports, and affidavits for litigation purposes; given depositions and have provided expert courtroom testimony; and have participated in technical/cost apportionment settlement negotiations. NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION (NJICLE) In 2013, the firm put together a Technical Seminar for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE) titled "Groundwater & Remediation Science for Lawyers" moderated by Lewis Goldshore, Esq. This seminar was given in 2013 and 2014 and is planned for 2015. PARTIAL LISTING OF CLIENTS
COURT-RELATED TESTIMONY Corden v. Anderson: 1985, Waterbury, CT
Key Areas: Groundwater Contamination; Petroleum Products; Contaminant Source and Migration; Domestic Well. Attorneys: Grady and Riley; Waterbury, CT Town of Bloomfield v. URS/MSR Engineers, Inc.: 1987, Newark,
NJ Key Areas: Municipal Production Well Design in Bedrock; Aquifer Pumping Test and Safe Yield Analysis; Drinking Water Quality Evaluation. Attorneys: Whipple, Ross & Hirsh;
Parsippany, NJ Carr v. Getty Oil and Magnus Construction Co.: 1988, Doylestown,
PA
Key Areas: Petroleum Product Contamination; Product Differentiation; Apportionment of Responsibility; Soil and Groundwater Contamination. Attorneys: Power, Bowen & Valimont; Doylestown, PA A&W Artesian Well Co. v. Leo O’Hara and Marilyn
O’Hara: 1998, Dedham, MA
Key Areas: Well Construction; Well Redevelopment Practices. Attorneys: Griffin & Goulka, Boston, MA. William P. Lenahan, Mansfield, MA Trustees of Northside Sanitary Landfill Site Trust Fund v.
Commissioner IDEM and Boone County Resource Recovery Systems,
Inc.: 1998, Indianapolis, Indiana Key Areas: Groundwater Flow; Depth to Top of Water Table; Groundwater Flux. Attorneys: Barnes & Thornburg; Indianapolis, IN J&D Development v, Bethlehem
Township: 2002, Belvedere, NJ Key Areas: Groundwater Recharge; Lot Size Calculations; Groundwater Sustainability. Attorneys: Garofalo & Pryor Pio Costa v. Township of Montville: 2007, Morristown, NJ Represented Montville Township, NJ in a water rights case with ramifications for the Township’s sole source of water supply. Key Areas: Aquifer/Groundwater Sustainability; Municipal Well Impacts; Glacial and Bedrock Aquifer Systems. Attorneys: Johnson Murphy, Riverdale, NJ DEPOSITIONS Township of Bloomfield v. URS/MSR Engineers, Inc.: 1987 Old Bridge Environmental Commission v. NJDEP et al.: 1988,
New Brunswick, NJ Key Areas: Municipal Wellfield Impacts from Industries; Chlorinated Solvent and Metals Sources; Remedial System Appropriateness; Timing Issues. Attorneys: Ball, Livingston & Tykulskar; Newark, NJ Laezza v. Exxon et al.: 1990, Ocean County, NJ
Key Areas: Municipal Wellfield Contamination; Contaminant Migration and Timing; Apportionment; Costs and Applicability of Remedial Technologies. Attorneys: Bumgardner, Hardin & Ellis; Springfield, NJ The Reliance Insurance Co. v. Lumbermans Mutual Casualty Co.
and AVX Corporation: 1990, Western District of New York Key Areas: Timing and Mechanism of Chlorinated Solvent Contamination; Contamination Sources; Groundwater Flow and Quality; Cost Recovery. Attorneys: Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle; Rochester, NY Lutz et al v. Chromatex, Inc. et al.: 1991, Hazleton, PA Key Areas: Groundwater Flow in Bedrock (Fracture Flow); Source Delineation; Apportionment of Responsibility; Timing of Chlorinated Solvent (VOC) Contamination. Attorneys: Williams & Cuker, Philadelphia, Pa J. T. Baker v. Aetna Insurance Company et al.: 1989-1997,
Warren County, NJ Key Areas: Timing and Mechanism of Impact to the Soil, Sediment and Groundwater Media from Chlorinated Solvents, Metals and Pesticides; Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction; Extent and Severity of Impact to Various Media at 17 Areas of Concern. Attorneys: Harwood Lloyd; Hackensack, NJ Nappi Colonial Concrete Co., et al. v. Westchester Colprovia
Corporation, Inc. et al.: 1992, Southern District of New York Key Areas: Groundwater Flow Analysis; Chlorinated Solvent (VOC) Contaminant Source and Migration Determination; Assessment of Impacts. Attorneys: Berle, Kass & Case; NY, NY EQ at Bedminster, L.P. v. Texaco, Inc. et al.: 1992, Bedminster,
NJ Key Areas: Groundwater Flow Conditions in Bedrock; Fracture Flow; Vertical Groundwater Flow; Responsibility in Multi-Party Suit; Construction Damages. Attorneys: Podvey Sachs; Newark, NJ Big V Supermarkets, Inc. and Somers Development Corporation
v. General Industries et al.: 1994, Southern District of New
York Key Areas: Private and Commercial Well Contamination; VOC (PCE) Source Delineation; DNAPL Potential; Groundwater Flow Conditions in Bedrock Aquifer System Under Sustained Pumping; Timing of Impact; Contaminant Transport Modeling; Apportionment. Attorneys: Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna; Albany, NY Gussack Realty Corporation
v. Xerox: 1996-1998, Southern District of New York Key Areas: Groundwater Flow in Fractured Bedrock; VOC Contaminant Plume Evaluation; DNAPL Issues; Fundamentals of Bedrock Hydrogeologic Systems. Attorneys: Kelley, Drye & Warren; NY, NY Pio Costa v. Township of Montville: 2007 OTHER CASES North Penn Water Authority v. Leeds & Northrup et al.: 1995-97, Philadelphia, PA Represented Leeds & Northrup, one of four defendants, in a case involving a municipal well contaminated with chlorinated solvents. Hydrogeologic conditions were characterized by fracture flow in bedrock and complex historical pumping stresses from multiple pumping centers. Key Areas: Municipal Wellfield Contamination with Chlorinated Solvents; Groundwater Flow Conditions in Fractured Bedrock; Capture Zone Analysis for Production Wells; Multiple Defendants; Apportionment. Attorneys: Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle; Rochester, NY Irene Jones v. Township of South Orange: 1998, South Orange,
NJ
Key Areas: Shallow Groundwater Flow; Water-Level Response to Precipitation Events; Water-Level Response to Pumping Stresses. Attorneys: Gaccione, Pomaco & Beck Franklin Court Condominium v. Edwards Supermarkets Inc, Giant Food Stores Inc., Whitestone Association, Anco Environmental Services et al.: 1999 2003. Hudson County, NJ Represented the Franklin Court Condominium in a case involving release of fuel oil next to a condominium Key Areas: Fuel Oil Contamination; Impacts to Soil and Groundwater; Vapor Impacts; OSHA Requirements. Attorneys: Korona, Beides & Eaton Township of Montville,
NJ v. Lotta Lettuce Farms, LLC. 2005
– Present Morris Commons, LLC v. Township of Rockaway and Township of Rockaway Planning Board. 2013 to Present |
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