Insurance fight prolongs scrap yard's endless pollution
HARTFORD CITY — A junk yard and one of the nation's largest insurance companies continue to blame each other for never-ending water pollution.
During five years of court battles with Hartford Iron & Metal, Valley Forge Insurance has spent millions of dollars in a seemingly inept attempt to stop PCB-contaminated storm water from illegally draining off of the salvage yard and into city streets, sewers and waterways.
A citizen group is conducting soil sampling to find out whether the contamination has spread onto neighboring residential properties.
It all started 10 years ago, when the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) discovered mismanagement of auto fluids and other waste at Hartford Iron's five-acre site at 209 S. Division St.
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