A Georgia textile manufacturer polluted the Chattooga River with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, an environmental group alleged in a complaint filed in federal court.
Mount Vernon Mills Inc. discharged wastewater contaminated with PFAS into the Trion, Ga., Water Pollution Control Plant without a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, Coosa River Basin Initiative alleged in its complaint.
The group also sued the town of Trion, claiming that it discharged PFAS from the plant into the Chattooga River and didn’t disclose the discharges in its permit applications. The most recent NPDES permit was from 2019, and didn’t allow PFAS discharge, the ...
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