Vermont Town Finds Its Water Contaminated with Corporate Cancer-Causing Chemicals
Above the Walloomsac River, where ramshackle farmhouses sit just downhill from tidy homes with organic gardens out back, the old ChemFab plant was, for many, a respected local employer from the days when this village’s prosperity depended on industry. For others, it was an eyesore and a nuisance, its smokestacks choking their homes with an acrid smell that seemed to cause headaches, sore throats and nosebleeds. But since it shut down more than a dozen years ago, few had given a thought to the plant’s environmental legacy.
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