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POPE RESOURCES, LP v. WASHINGTON D.N.R.

No. 47861-7-II.

389 P.3d 699 (2016)

197 Wash.App. 409

POPE RESOURCES, LP, a Delaware limited partnership; OPG Properties, LLC., a Washington limited liability company, Appellants, v. The WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, a Washington state agency, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 2.

December 28, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nick Steven Verwolf , David Joseph Ubaldi , Robert Edward Miller , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, 777 108th Ave. N.E., Ste. 2300, Bellevue, WA, 98004-5149, for Appellants.

Edward David Callow , Attorney General of Washington, P.O. Box 40100, Olympia, WA, 98504-0100, for Respondent.

Steven J. Thiele , Jason T. Morgan , Sara Anne Leverette , Stoel Rives LLP, 600 University St., Ste. 3600, Seattle, WA, 98101-4109, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Georgia Pacific, LLC.

Andrew Arthur Fitz , Office of the Attorney General/Ecology Division, 2425 Bristol Ct. S.W., Fl. 2, P.O. Box 40117, Olympia, WA, 98504-0117, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of WA Department of Ecology.

Michael L. Dunning , Perkins Coie LLP, 1201 3rd Ave., Ste. 4900, Seattle, WA, 98101-3099, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Sierra Pacific Industries.

Laura Beth Wishik , Seattle City Attorney's Office, 701 5th Ave., Ste. 2050, Columbia Ctr., Seattle, WA, 98104-7095, Adam Rosenberg , Williams Kastner & Gibbs PLLC, 601 Union St., Ste. 4100, Seattle, WA, 98101-1368, Amy Beth Kraham , City of Bellingham, 210 Lottie St., Bellingham, WA, 98225-4089, Christopher D. Bacha , Tacoma City Attorney's Office, 747 Market St., Rm. 1120, Tacoma, WA, 98402-3701, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Tacoma City of Seattle.

Kenneth Lederman , Foster Pepper PLLC, 1111 3rd Ave., Ste. 3000, Seattle, WA, 98101-3292, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of WA Environmental Counsel.

David Alan Bricklin , Bricklin & Newman, LLP, 1424 4th Ave., Ste. 500, Seattle, WA, 98101-2258, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Jolene Unsoeld et al.

William E. Bloor , City of Port Angeles, P.O. Box 1150, Port Angeles, WA, 98362-0217, Rodney L. Brown, Jr. , Cascadia Law Group, 1201 3rd Ave., Ste. 320, Seattle, WA, 98101-3075, Jennifer Tanya Barnett , Cascadia Law Group, 606 Columbia St. N.W., Ste. 212, Olympia, WA, 98501-1093, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of City of Port Angeles.

¶ 1 Pope Resources LP and OPG1 (collectively, Pope) sued the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for contribution of cleanup costs for contamination at the Port Gamble Bay and Mill Site (collectively, the Site) under the Model Toxic Control Act (MTCA).2 The superior court...

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