Chesapeake paid over $34K to clean 500 gallons of dumped paint. Now, the city's suing.

[TexasTowelie]

CHESAPEAKE -- One day last winter, someone dumped 500 gallons of latex paint in South Hill.

It leached into the ground, a ditch, the city’s storm sewer system and the wetlands of the Elizabeth River, according to a lawsuit.

And it cost the city more than $34,000 to clean up.

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The reason the paint was spilled?

So the cans could be sold as scrap metal, the suit says.

Read more: http://pilotonline.com/news/government/local/chesapeake-paid-over-k-to-clean-gallons-of-dumped-paint/article_034c7188-df71-51f0-a0d2-4a4e94a5b98c.html