Conservation groups file lawsuit against Bethlehem landfill for allegedly violating Clean Water Act

Filed in U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire by the Toxics Action Center and Conservation Law Foundation, the lawsuit alleges that North Country Environmental Services (NCES) and Casella Waste Systems, its corporate parent, “discharged pollutants, including, but not limited to, contaminated groundwater, landfill leachate, iron, manganese and 1,4 dioxane” to the Ammonoosuc River via a 370-foot drainage channel.

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