Source: https://thecurrentga.org/, December 6, 2022
By: Mary Landers

The City of Brunswick is suing Honeywell and Georgia Power over pollutants on city property that allegedly came from the companies’ nearby industrial activity beginning in the 1950s. A federal Superfund site established in 1996 to clean up the pollutants does not include city property.

In a complaint filed in late October in the Superior Court of Glynn County, the city argues that mercury and PCBs on its property from a long-defunct manufacturing facility and a more recently retired electric power plant amounts to a continuing trespass and nuisance. Fish and crabs in the area’s waterways have accumulated levels of mercury and PCBs toxic to people who eat them. The city requests a jury trial with the jury determining punitive damages. Read more.