Woonsocket Wastewater Treatment Facility Target of Class-Action Lawsuit
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — The operators of a Woonsocket wastewater treatment facility are being sued, again. Last month local residents Maurice Doire and ...
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — The operators of a Woonsocket wastewater treatment facility are being sued, again. Last month local residents Maurice Doire and Joshua Hoye filed a class-action lawsuit in Rhode Island District Court against Synagro Woonsocket LLC and Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. over their alleged mismanagement of the wastewater treatment plant and sewage sludge incinerator on the banks of the Blackstone River. In the complaint, the plaintiffs allege Baltimore-based Synagro and Texas-based Jacobs, which have a history of odor complaints and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management violations, 'have, and continue to, unnecessarily and unreasonably cause noxious odors to be emitted off-site and into Plaintiffs homes and similarly situated neighboring residential properties in Woonsocket.