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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Bredar denies summary judgment to a rail firm against a pipeline construction company, and to the company against Baltimore, after the company dumped sewage at the rail firm’s coal shipping site. Initially, the firm gave the city access to its site to allow it to update sewage lines that run underneath. The construction company, hired as a subcontractor, then dumped the sewage during its work at the site. As to the firm, there are still factual disputes regarding the extent of contamination and appropriateness as to remediation of the firm’s site, which routinely sprays loads of coal with water to suppress coal dust. The firm has not demonstrated an absence of genuine dispute of material fact. As for the company, it does owe the firm a duty of care separate from any of its obligations to the city.