
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 13, 1990                   TAG: 9006130106
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SMITHFIELD                                LENGTH: Short

SMITHFIELD SETTLES 7-YEAR POLLUTION BATTLE

Smithfield Foods Inc. has agreed to pay $639,000 in fines and legal fees as part of a settlement with two environmental groups, ending the company's seven-year battle over pollution of the Pagan River.

The settlement, signed Friday by U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. in Richmond, is considerably less than $1.2 million ordered by a federal court in 1985 for discharges from the meatpacker's Gwaltney of Smithfield packing plant. That decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. - Associated Press

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