Post by Logan on Apr 5, 2017 23:45:24 GMT -6
Chesapeake paid over $34K to clean 500 gallons of dumped paint. Now, the city's suing.
CHESAPEAKE -- One day last winter, someone dumped 500 gallons of latex paint in South Hill.
It leached into the ground, a ditch, the city’s storm sewer system and the wetlands of the Elizabeth River, according to a lawsuit.
And it cost the city more than $34,000 to clean up.
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The reason the paint was spilled?
So the cans could be sold as scrap metal, the suit says.
Read more: pilotonline.com/news/government/local/chesapeake-paid-over-k-to-clean-gallons-of-dumped-paint/article_034c7188-df71-51f0-a0d2-4a4e94a5b98c.html