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Somerset Mill, located alongside the Kennebec River, has for decades discharged chemicals into water sources, dumped into landfills and sold as fertilizer, grossly contaminating property in Maine; former owner Kimberly-Clark and current owner Sappi Ltd., of South Africa, named as defendants
Leading plaintiffs law firm
Grant & Eisenhofer has filed a lawsuit seeking class status in Maine Superior Court against current and previous owners and operators of a paper mill that has for decades dumped toxic and long-lasting "forever chemicals" into water and soil, contaminating property and drinking-water sources.
The class seeks to represent anyone who lived in Somerset County, Maine – the state's third-largest by area – for at least one year between 1967 through the present. The complaint asserts that Somerset Mill, a paper and pulp facility owned until 1995 by Kimberly-Clark Corp. and Scott Paper Co., and now by South Africa's Sappi Ltd., is the source of dangerous pollutants in area residents' drinking water in concentrations far exceeding federal government guidance.