Source: Great American Environmental Division, May 2013
While performing due diligence in the course of selling an apartment building, the owner of the apartment building learned that an underground plume of contaminants from a neighboring property had impacted their site, resulting in vapor intrusion into several of their buildings. Unfortunately, the source of the plume was an orphaned site so the owner of the apartment building was stuck paying the entire cost for the vapor mitigation system and faces the real possibility of future bodily injury claims from tenants.