Hood Sues Firms For Water Contamination

GRENADA, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi’s attorney general is suing companies it accuses of dumping toxic chemicals in Grenada and Water Valley that polluted the groundwater and air.

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The Clarion-Ledger reports (http://on.thec-l.com/2o3JM9W ) that the attorney general’s office filed two lawsuits Friday after outcry from residents and a U.S. congressman.

One lawsuit filed in Grenada County alleges that a Grenada plant which manufactured hubcaps dumped cancer-causing Trichloroethylene (TCE) onto land where a subdivision was built.

Textron, one of the companies being sued, said in a statement that it owned the plant for a short time decades ago and is “working to understand the historic operations of the site.”

A second lawsuit filed in Yalobusha County names several companies as defendants. It states that TCE from storage tanks leeched into the soil and groundwater beneath a manufacturing plant there.

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