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Thursday, December 09, 2004

Environment - Stories today

"Martinsville files lawsuit over water cleanup costs" is the headline to this story today in the Indianapolis Star. A quote:

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. -- City officials want to install a filter to protect the municipal water supply, which faces contamination from a chemical suspected of causing cancer.

However, representatives for Masterwear Corp., the industrial dry-cleaning company accused of releasing the chemical into the soil more than a decade ago, is balking at the city's request to pay for the filter, which is estimated to add at least $600,000 to the cleanup cost.

To turn up the heat, the city filed a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis to recoup all expenses required to clean the water supply.

"We will continue to negotiate in the hope that we don't have to go to trial," Martinsville City Attorney Rod Bray said Wednesday, "as long as it can be settled on our terms."

Defendants in the lawsuit are Masterwear Corp.; James A. Reed and his wife, Linda Lou Mull Reed, the owners of Masterwear; and William J. Cure and Elizabeth J. Cure, former owners of the downtown Martinsville building where Masterwear operated from 1986 to 1992.

Earlier ILB entries on Martinsville groundwater contamination may be located here.

Porter County Open Space Ordinance. Updating this 9/14/04 ILB entry on the recently passed ordinance requiring developers to set aside open space as part of larger residential developments is a story today in the Munster Times headlined "First case under open space law works well."

Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 9, 2004 08:01 AM
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