Friday, October 01, 2010
Letcher County Lawsuit Settled
KENTUCKY....
To settle a state lawsuit over an October 2008 diesel fuel spill that contaminated the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Letcher County, Childers Oil will pay $500,000. In February 2009, a similar spill from a second Childers Oil site damaged the Whitesburg water plant, shutting off service for days to 7,500 customers. Whitesburg Mayor James Craft said Friday that he was surprised and pleased to hear the city would recover some of the costs. Craft says the city paid around $125,000 to replace and upgrade the city water treatment plant's carbon filtering system and
also sued Childers over about $50,000 in water testing laboratory bills.
To settle a state lawsuit over an October 2008 diesel fuel spill that contaminated the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Letcher County, Childers Oil will pay $500,000. In February 2009, a similar spill from a second Childers Oil site damaged the Whitesburg water plant, shutting off service for days to 7,500 customers. Whitesburg Mayor James Craft said Friday that he was surprised and pleased to hear the city would recover some of the costs. Craft says the city paid around $125,000 to replace and upgrade the city water treatment plant's carbon filtering system and
also sued Childers over about $50,000 in water testing laboratory bills.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 8:25 PM 
