Decatur City schools has taken the first step to file a lawsuit against 3M.
The school system claims industrial toxins are leaking from the one-time landfill beneath the former Brookhaven Middle School. They say chemicals are leaking into a creek, groundwater and the Tennessee River. 3M says materials were disposed of properly based on laws at the time the landfill operated decades ago.
3M agreed to pay millions in a lawsuit over contamination in the Decatur area earlier this year.
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