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GE Sued For? PCB Pollution Of Coosa ATLANTA (UPI) -- A The suit also named (he group, of Georgia and Monsanto 0. as a defendant Alabama residents have because iM^firm sold the filed a 1500 f IfWIV11 pollutant WGE. against tbf|HMPHNMp Georgia officials (wo Co.,* chhrflrigtJW' firm weeks ago halted com- "recklessly" uaed. PCB mercial fishing in the Coosa pollution of the Coost River. after high levels of PCBs -- The class action suit filed, polychlorinated biphenyls -- Monday on behalf of river were found in fish caught properly owners, businesses there. The bin later was and fishermen charges GE extended to two northwest "willfully, wantonly. Georgia tributaries of the negligently , or recklessly river. * allowed and paused PCB to a GE plant near Borne be reJ^Ma stream uses PCBi in the that lead* directly into the manufacture of electric Coots Blver." ^___________ transformers._______________ W.R. Buchanan, a plant residents, saio since the official, said PCBs were used Wishing ban "the place is a to makff.maQy products at ghost town all up and down the plant a few yean ago. the river." "Until 1972, there were any number of tftea of PCB. It was used in lubrication oil that might hafe been disposed of and ultimately found Its way into the water system,'* he said. ' He said some poor residents "literally depend on catching fish in the river just to eat." The suit asks 9300,000 in damage! to be distributed ; among as many as 1,000 people who may have been Re said since the firm still adversely affected by the uses PCBs. it is a "natural pollution. target" for lawsuits. Lanham said He would William C. Lsnham, the attempt to prove Monsanto Atlanta attorney did not fully inform G E of t he representing the river effects of PCBa. HONS 0367aa