[CPEO-BIF] "Flexsteel Settles, Ends Decades-long Legal Dispute Over Elkhart [Indiana] Contaminated Groundwater Site"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Flexsteel Settles, Ends Decades-long Legal Dispute Over Elkhart Contaminated Groundwater Site
$9.8 million settlement to pay for past and future cleanup of TCE at former RV seat-assembly facility.

By Enrique Saenz
Indiana Environmental Reporter
November 4, 2022
  
The former owner of three RV seat-assembly facilities suspected of contributing to a contamination plume that is now a Superfund site in Elkhart agreed to pay $9.8 million to settle allegations it violated state and federal environmental laws.

Flexsteel Industries Inc. agreed to sign a consent decree with state and federal environmental agencies to settle claims the company violated the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, also known as the Superfund law, and equivalent state laws, by failing to prevent the release of a cancer-causing chemical called trichloroethene, also known as trichloroethylene or TCE; tetrachloroethene, or PCE; and other toxic chemicals.

Flexsteel denied being responsible for the contamination and said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing it only signed the agreement because it was in the company’s “best interest.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.indianaenvironmentalreporter.org/posts/flexsteel-settles-ends-decades-long-legal-dispute-over-elkhart-contaminated-groundwater-site

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Lenny Siegel
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