Word: schlichtmann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lawyers for eight Woburn families are charging that factories owned by Grace and Beatrice contaminated the wells by knowingly dumping wastes into soil that leached into an underground aquifer. The two companies, said Attorney Jan Schlichtmann, "knew what they were doing could hurt people but . . . chose to do it anyway." The wells, closed in 1979, were found to contain five toxic chemicals, among them trichloroethylene, or a cleaning solvent that Schlichtmann contends causes cancer, a point vigorously denied by the defense...