[CPEO-BIF] Solvent Chemical Co. site, Niagara Falls. New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

2 firms ordered to help pay for cleanup

Dan Herbeck
Buffalo News (NY)
January 28, 2010

U.S. District Judge John T. Curtin this week directed two companies to 
contribute toward the cleanup of a badly contaminated site in Niagara 
Falls where a plant had manufactured a chemical that protected soldiers 
from poison gas. Lawsuits and countersuits have been filed since 1983, 
trying to determine who was to blame for the pollution at 3163 Buffalo Ave.

Solvent Chemical Co. and its parent company, ICC Industries, already 
have spent more than $9.1 million for a containment project at Solvent's 
former factory site on Buffalo Avenue.

Curtin ruled that DuPont Co. must contribute $2.05 million toward what 
Solvent has spent on the effort. He directed another chemical company, 
Olin Corp., to contribute $462,000.

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http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=12D88F65A9C0B0B0&p_docnum=1\

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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
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