[CPEO-BIF] Raytheon settles with neighbors in St. Petersburg, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Raytheon neighbors settle pollution suit for $2,500 each

By MARK DOUGLAS
Tampa Bay Online (FL)
June 17, 2011

Three years after filing a lawsuit against the Raytheon Co. for  
polluting a St. Petersburg neighborhood, attorneys have agreed to a  
settlement in which most homeowners will get $2,500 each.

If all those entitled to the settlement collect their money, the cost  
would amount to about $900,000, which is far short of the hundreds of  
millions that the homeowners' attorneys originally estimated.

U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington agreed to accept the  
agreement during a hearing Thursday.

Raytheon inherited a now-defunct defense plant, at 1501 72nd St. N.,  
where underground pollution was first discovered in 1991.

The previous owner, E-Systems, had dumped chemicals and solvents used  
to clean and manufacture electronic parts in open pits behind its  
buildings. Other chemicals leaked from underground tanks.


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For the entire article, see
http://www2.tbo.com/news/news/2011/jun/17/MENEWSO10-raytheon- 
neighbors-settle-pollution-suit-ar-237919/

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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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