Farmer files landfill lawsuit

Farmer seeks $2.5M for groundwater contamination

Allows city to install monitoring wells on farm

By Jay Conley
The Roanoke Times

BEDFORD, VA - A Bedford County farmer whose land has been polluted by the city of Bedford's old landfill has filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against the city.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Bedford County Circuit Court, is the latest in a more than two-year struggle by Mike Schrock to get the city to clean up his land so he can use it for farming purposes again. . . Read more