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Suit filed against King America
Plaintiffs claim plant caused fish kill
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Bulloch County resident Jimmy Hayes addresses a panel representing state agencies involved in investigating the fish kill with his concerns about pollution during Tuesday's public meeting at Effingham County Middle School.
A class action lawsuit filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court alleges King America Finishing, a textiles plant in Screven County, is responsible for a massive fish kill that left more than 33,000 fish rotting on the Ogeechee River banks last month. It also alleges chemicals discharged by the plant caused illness in some who swam in the river following the discharge. As of Tuesday, Marietta attorney Edwin Hallman Jr. listed three plaintiffs in the suit.
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