Pharmacia Corporation and Bayer CropScience Inc. have paid the settlement demanded after chemicals damaged wildlife in the Aberjona River and wetlands and the Mystic Lakes downstream.
As reported on Woburn Patch, Pharmacia Corporation and Bayer CropScience Inc. was ordered to pay $4.25 million by the Federal Department of Justice to settle claims of natural resource damages in Woburn on the Industri-plex Superfund site. The decsion was made in May of 2012. According to a release from the Massachusetts Department of Environment Protection (DEP) and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services, the defendants paid the $4.25 million settlement this week and state and federal agencies are looking for residents and organizations to provide suggestions on how to spend the money. “With this settlement, we can fund a range of projects designed to restore the natural resources for all to enjoy,” said Energy and Environmental Affairs …
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10:32 am on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Suggestion for what to do with the money: Convert all of the parking lots (in the industrial area on commercial st and behind the mall) to permeable parking lots so that the flooding that occurs downstream (when it rains anything over 3 inches in 24 hours)...That soil filtration alone will decrease runoff 'pollution' and mediate the flooding. more ›