U.S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg ruled this week that a lawsuit against Dalton-based carpet manufacturers can continue.
The lawsuit accuses 3M, Mohawk, Shaw Industries and others of dumping chemicals in the Oostanaula River causing toxic chemical compounds to migrate downstream. The lawsuit alleges that the perflourinated compounds have led to contamination in Floyd and Chattooga Counties.
Judge Totenberg denied several motions to dismiss, with the exception of some negligence claims, in a voluminous 180-page order.
“Dalton, Georgia has been dubbed the ‘Carpet Capital of the World.’ But Dalton’s carpet commerce, according to Plaintiff, has resulted in serious harm to individuals that live in the surrounding area because certain chemicals heavily used in carpet production, PFAS, are both toxic and everlasting,” Judge Totenberg wrote in the order’s summary.”
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