Industri-Plex Superfund Site part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Key Issues in the Trial
Overview The Industri-Plex Superfund site in north Woburn was home to numerous manufacturing facilities from the mid-1800s to 1980. The businesses that were located in this area included leather manufacturers and ...

Chemical Industries in Woburn part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Key Issues in the Trial
Overview The 1986 federal trial focused responsibility for pollution of municipal wells G and H on W.R. Grace & Co. and Beatrice Foods, Inc. In its defense, W.R. Grace highlighted the history of pollution in ...

Pesticide Manufacturing part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Key Issues in the Trial
  Overview   Historically, several chemical companies that produced pesticides had facilities in Woburn. Between 1899 and 1914, the Merrimack Chemical Company was the largest producer of arsenic-based ...

The Trial Process part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Key Issues in the Trial
This webpage presents an overview of the formal processes and proceedings in any civil trial and a link to separate webpage that presents the specific chronology of events in the Woburn Toxic Trial. Links are also ...

Impact of Industry on the Aberjona Watershed part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Key Issues in the Trial
Overview In the Late 1600s Woburn's first tanning industry began production. Soon after the construction of the Middlesex canal connecting Woburn and Boston, industrial development in Woburn surged. The ...

Woburn Toxic Trial Chronology part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Key Issues in the Trial
For most complicated cases, like the Woburn Toxic Trial, it is not uncommon for the trial process to span several years. Although the Woburn trial took place from March through July 1986, the trial process ...

Woburn's Industrial History part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Key Issues in the Trial
Overview Most of the information in this section was abstracted from the report by Professor Joel Tarr at the University of Pittsburgh (Tarr, 1987). Woburn's industrial history began in the late 1600s when ...

Horn Pond - Woburn's Early Water Problem part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Key Issues in the Trial
Overview This webpage describes the early water-quality problems associated with industrial discharge into Horn Pond and the wells built around Horn Pond in the early 1900s. Historic Background Horn Pond is now a ...

State and Federal Health Studies part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Key Issues in the Trial
Overview The public health studies, which focused on the Woburn leukemia clusters, were the earliest publications that brought attention to the health problems in Woburn. Eventually, a 1997 Massachusetts ...

Technological Context of the 1986 Trial part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Key Issues in the Trial
Often it is difficult for people who did not live during the time period of the Woburn Toxic Trial to appreciate the limits of technology in the mid-1980s. The purpose of this webpage is to describe the ...