Ex-employees sue Water Valley facility over TCE pollution by Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today June 5, 2024 A group of north Mississippians have filed a negligence lawsuit in federal court claiming that pollution their former employer released into the air, groundwater and soil near the Water Valley facility where they worked inflicted them with long-term symptoms such as cancer and Parkinson's disease.
Seven of the plaintiffs have some form of cancer, and other diagnoses among the group include Parkinson's disease and kidney disease. Coltec, the lawsuit claims, did not have a plan for disposing its TCE waste. The complaint details an incident where Coltec told an employee to dump TCE waste in a ditch behind the facility and, the next day, an employee told their supervisor that they saw about 20 dead turtles in the same ditch.