Textile Mill, Georgia Town to Pay $400,000 in Wastewater Suit

Mount Vernon Mills Inc. and a Georgia town will pay a combined $400,000 to the city of Summerville, Ga., as part of a deal to settle claims against them over the presence of the hazardous chemicals called PFAS in the city’s water supply.

Senior Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. of the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia approved the consent decree Wednesday. Summerville resident Earl Parris Jr. alleged Mount Vernon’s textile mills wastewater that flowed into Trion’s Water Pollution Control Plant caused the plant’s biosolids to contain high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as “forever ...