The catchment management agency may recover all costs incurred jointly and severally from:
- any person who is or was responsible for, or who directly or indirectly contributed to, the pollution or the potential pollution;
- the owner of the land at the time when the pollution or the potential for pollution occurred, or that owner’s successor in title;
- the person in control of the land or any person who has a right to use the land at the time when -
(i) the activity or the process is or was performed or undertaken; or
(ii) the situation came about; or
- any person who negligently failed to prevent -
(i) the activity or the process being performed or undertaken; or
(ii) the situation from coming about.
