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0513 If land is contaminated by refined petroleum products, a landholder required by law to remove the contaminants is not entitled under California's Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Act to indemnity by a former possessor who caused the contamination, but may sue the former possessor for public nuisance, private nuisance, and trespass; if the contaminant is capable of being removed, the statute of limitations does not begin to run until its removal.CitationKFC v MEGHRIG (Gasoline Clean-up) 23 CA4 1167 [See: H&SC 25300 etseq; CivC 3479-3481, 3493; Capogeannis v SuperCt 12 CA4 668, T/AT 3/93; Newhall v SuperCt 19 CA4 334, T/AT 12/93; Wilshire v ARCO 20 CA4 732, T/AT 2/94]
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