Lumber Firm Settles Pollution Suit With Greenway Project Funding

摘要

A custom lumber company based in Williamsburg, Mass., will pay $30,000 to a local greenway initiative aspart of an agreement with the commonwealth that will settle claims Lashway Lumber Inc. unlawfullyallowed wood shavings and other timber byproducts to pollute the Mill River.Lashway Lumber and its sister company, Lashway Logging Inc., will split the payments that will fund thedesign and engineering of the Williamsburg Mill River Greenway, according to the consent decree filedOct. 16 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.