Most of the 120 additional parties named Wednesday by the city
of Lodi in an ongoing pollution lawsuit aren't strangers to the
case. The main difference is that, until Wednesday, they hadn't
been sued by the city.
It was a move that both a defense attorney and Mayor Larry
Hansen agreed should have been done years ago, after a state agency
conducted an investigation into carcinogenic chemicals lurking in
the soil and water.
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