More lawsuits were filed Friday over the January 2014 Elk River chemical spill, as Saturday's two-year anniversary of the incident approached.
Lawyers for the city of Charleston, the Kanawha County Commission, the Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Kanawha -Charleston Health Department filed one suit that seeks a variety of compensation for the spill, as well as creation of a court-ordered medical monitoring program for residents.
Named as defendants in that suit were West Virginia American Water Company, Eastman Chemical, and former Freedom Industries officials Gary Southern and Dennis Farrell.
In a second complaint, a separate class-action suit was filed against Little Caesar's Pizza that alleges that company's local stores continued to use contaminated water to make pizzas, while trying to convince customers they were using clean water instead.
Both suits were filed in Kanawha Circuit Court.