[CPEO-MEF] Air Force sues Tennessee localities over landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force names cities, county in landfill suit


GREG ALTUM
Tullahoma News (TN)
January 24, 2005

COFFEE COUNTY - Sixteen years after Coffee County, Manchester and
Tullahoma stopped using Air Force property adjacent to Central High
School as a landfill, the issue of paying cleanup costs is apparently
going to court. 

The U.S. Department of Justice, "acting at the request of the United
States Air Force," filed a civil suit Thursday in Federal District Court
in Winchester.

The United States of America is listed as the plaintiff in the suit and
defendants are listed as Coffee County, the City of Manchester and City
of Tullahoma.

The suit states "the Air Force has spent at least $9 million to date on
response actions at the landfill," and the defendants are "liable for
all costs of removal or remedial action incurred by the United States."

In addition to asking reimbursement for costs already incurred, the suit
seeks "a declaratory judgment as to liability for costs to be incurred,
to respond to releases and threatened releases of hazardous substances
through response activities undertaken or funded by the Air Force at the
Coffee County landfill, in Coffee County, Tennessee, which is located on
the Arnold Air Force Base."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1614&dept_id=161052&newsid=13810346&PAG=461&rfi=9

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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