CARIBOU, Maine — A Georgia woman and former employee of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service in Limestone is suing the Loring Development Authority, claiming that she is suffering health effects after she was exposed to contaminated water at work.
Angela Jackson of Bonaire, Georgia, filed the suit on Monday in U.S. District Court in Bangor. According to the court documents, she started work in 1997 at the DFAS offices in Limestone, which are located in the Loring Commerce Centre on the former Loring Air Force base.
The Loring Development Authority, which oversees facilities on the property, provided water service through an underground reservoir, storage system, and treatment plant to DFAS and other businesses and residential tenants, the suit states.
Jackson, who frequently drank the water in her coffee, began getting ill around 2004 or 2005, according to the lawsuit. Her condition worsened significantly in July 2011 and she began suffering neurological problems, hair loss, appetite disturbance, headaches, memory lapses and sleep disturbances, the suit says.
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