[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Appeals court schedules hearing in Myrtle Beach contamination lawsuit"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Appeals court schedules hearing in Myrtle Beach contamination lawsuit

David Wrten
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
July 18, 2012

A federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., will let lawyers for AVX  
Corp. and the U.S. government present oral arguments this fall in a  
lawsuit involving groundwater contamination near AVX’s manufacturing  
facility along 17th Avenue South in Myrtle Beach.

...

The appeal, filed by AVX, centers on a lawsuit to determine whether  
the federal government should share in the cost of cleaning up  
trichloroethylene, or TCE, in groundwater that has migrated over the  
years onto property once owned by Horry Land Co. TCE is an industrial  
degreaser that was commonly used in the 1960s and 1970s that has  
since been determined to cause health problems, such as cancer.

Judge Terry Wooten, in a district court ruling last year in Florence,  
said there is no evidence that the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base  
- which was located adjacent to AVX - contributed to the groundwater  
contamination. Wooten ordered AVX to pay the entire projected $5  
million cleanup cost for the Horry Land property.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/07/18/2946063/appeals-court- 
schedules-hearing.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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