Source: https://www.daytondailynews.com/, July 7, 2020
By: Ismail Turay, Jr.

The village of Camden has filed a lawsuit against food processing giant Cargill Inc. and two other companies seeking to recover more than $3 million the municipality spent after it alleges salt from the businesses contaminated its drinking water.

In the lawsuit, filed in the Preble County Common Pleas Court in June, the village accused the companies of contaminating its well field and public water system. Salt runoff from those companies seeped into the ground water and contaminated the wells, the lawsuit alleges. The village first learned about the contamination in 2010, the suit says, and the cost to acquire a new well field caused residents’ water rates to more than double. Read more