[CPEO-BIF] Tell City [Indiana] families sue General Electric over contamination from former plant

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tell City families sue General Electric over contamination from former plant

By Beth Edwards
Indiana Environmental Reporter
August 27, 2021

Families living near a former General Electric factory in Tell City have filed a lawsuit against the company claiming lower property values and a risk to human health because of contaminants released from the plant into the environment.

The suit was filed in Perry County circuit court in October of 2020, with 36 families as plaintiffs.

TCE was first discovered in soil samples on the property in October 2010.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management first notified the public of the contamination in 2017. GE was conducting environmental investigations for a sale of the property and found trichloroethylene (TCE) to be migrating into the groundwater beyond the boundary of the facility.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.indianaenvironmentalreporter.org/posts/tell-city-families-sue-general-electric-over-contamination-from-former-plant

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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