[CPEO-BIF] Myrtle Beach (SC) AVX litigation

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

AVX wants claims dropped
Firm sees no value losses for landowner

By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun-News (SC)
July 19, 2009

Myrtle Beach-based AVX Corp. says toxic groundwater contamination that 
spread from its site to adjoining land has not created a financial 
hardship for a neighboring property owner, and the manufacturer wants a 
federal judge to dismiss damage claims against the company. Horry Land 
Co. - which owns the property across the street from AVX's 17th Avenue 
South headquarters - is fighting the manufacturer's attempt to obtain a 
summary judgment in the case, saying the pollution has cost the company 
at least $5.4 million.

No court date has been scheduled to decide the matter.

Meanwhile, two other pollution-related lawsuits filed against AVX have 
stalled while the manufacturer appeals a judge's March ruling that the 
cases should be heard in state court. AVX wants to combine those 
lawsuits - a class-action case filed on behalf of residents and another 
filed by JDS Development of Myrtle Beach Inc. - with the Horry Land case.

All of the lawsuits - which were filed in late 2007 and early 2008 - 
allege that AVX contaminated groundwater at neighboring properties with 
an industrial degreaser called trichloroethylene, or TCE, a toxic 
chemical that has been linked to cancer and other health problems.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thesunnews.com/news/local/story/987106.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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