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Tyson Sued in Water Pollution Case
The suit also seeks to hold Tyson responsible for waste suspected of leaching into the lake after being used as fertilizer by Tyson contract farmers. The property owners claim that the pollution has brought foul air quality, poultry remains, oil slicks and scum to the lake's shoreline. Another Arkansas-based poultry processor, Simmons Foods Inc., settled a $10 million lawsuit filed by northeast Oklahomans who accused the company of contaminating groundwater in the area. |
Tyson Foods has been accused of polluting Grand Lake, which flows
from the Oklahoma border to Missouri. Property owners in the area
have accused the chicken processor of discharging millions of
gallons of wastewater from it's processing plant near Noel, MO,
into the Elk River, which flows into Oklahoma. Ten prestigious
law firms, including John F. Kennedy Jr's. Waterkeeper Alliance,
will be providing legal assistance to the property owners who
are suing.