Arcade Water District, a Public Agency of the State of California v. United States

28 F.3d 104 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. ARCADE WATER DISTRICT, a public agency of the State of California, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee. No. 93-15290. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 14, 1994. Decided July 8, 1994. Before: Goodwin, Pregerson, and Rymer, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 Arcade Water District ("Arcade"), a California public agency, appeals the district court's judgment, following a bench trial on remand from this Court, in Arcade's action under the Federal Tort Claims Act ( 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2674 et seq.). Arcade seeks damages for the contamination of one of its water wells, allegedly caused by the federal government's negligent operation of a military base laundry. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 . We affirm. BACKGROUND 3 At the military base laundry, the United States employed a zeolite softening process: wastewater from 2,400 pounds of sodium…