As it later turned out, Pinder was generally right. In its final report, released two years after the trial, the EPA concluded that the Beatrice property “contains the most extensive area of contaminated soil” and “represents the area of highest groundwater contamination at the Wells G & H site.” The report may have vindicated Pinder, but it came out too late to do Schlichtmann any good.

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 2044