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| | The Austin Chronicle: News: Alcoa, von Gonten Family Reach Settlement in Legal Fight |
 | | Alcoa backfilled a pipeline easement on the von Gonten family's property in 1992 with coal bottom ash from a TXU plant the company uses to power its smelter. |
 | | The settlement requires the von Gontens and McFaddin to pay just under $6,000 over the course of one year, the actual court costs they would be responsible for after dropping the suit, but not Alcoa's attorneys' fees. |
 | | The von Gontens, who have owned the property for four generations and who currently operate a poultry farm there, asked Alcoa to remove the ash before any suit was filed, fearing groundwater contamination, according to McFaddin. |
| www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2005-12-02/pols_naked5.html (956 words) |
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