[CPEO-BIF] "Jury awards Myrtle Beach [South Carolina] developers $750, 000 in damages in AVX pollution case"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Jury awards Myrtle Beach developers $750,000 in damages in AVX  
pollution case

By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun-News (SC)
August 1, 2013

CONWAY - A jury on Thursday ordered AVX Corp. to pay $750,000 in  
actual and punitive damages to the developer of a condominium project  
in Myrtle Beach that lost its financial backing in 2007 after it was  
discovered the property’s groundwater had been contaminated with  
trichloroethylene migrating from the adjacent manufacturer’s facility.

The jury awarded $250,000 in punitive damages, agreeing that AVX’s  
conduct in releasing the pollution and then trying to hide it from  
the public for 14 years was both reckless and willful.

The award of $500,000 in actual damages includes money JDS  
Development of Myrtle Beach Inc. spent on plans and permitting for  
its Southern Pines project in the months before the  
trichloroethylene, or TCE, contamination was discovered. The award  
also reimburses the developer for the loss of use of its property.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/08/01/3619942/jury-awards- 
myrtle-beach-developers.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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