The U.S. and Kansas Sue DuPont, $DD, For Poisoning Waterways

“Federal and state officials have joined together to go after DuPont for allegedly dumping hazardous substances into Kansas’ waterways and soil.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court, the U.S. Department of Justice, along with environmental officials from Kansas, claim that the Waco Subsite of DuPont’s Cherokee County SuperfundSite has discharged lead, cadmium, zinc and other poisons from mines into surface areas and bodies of water, in violation of the 1972 Clean Water Act.

The polluting has impacted migratory birds, fish and other life forms.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed the Cherokee County Superfund Site on its National Priorities List in 1983. It consists of 115 square miles in southeast Kansas, near the borders with Missouri and Oklahoma. The Waco Subsite covers about 560 acres.”