October 23, 2009- Dickson County may have narrowly escaped having to shut down its school system in recent weeks because of financial shortfalls, but the county continues to rack up costs defending itself in lawsuits over a landfill that leaked toxic substances into nearby wells.
Now, the New York-based environmental group that filed one of three pending federal cases against the county and the city of Dickson may expand the case to include two Dickson County companies as plaintiffs, dealing a potential new blow to the local economy.
Meanwhile, residents worry that more contamination may be seeping from the landfill — part of which has no lining — and that groundwater carrying a poisonous chemical could pollute other wells and drinking water supplies in the area.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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