A group of neighbors living near Central and Webb said in a new filing in Sedgwick County District Court this month that the airplane manufacturing plant across the street has created “a blight on their community.”
Attorneys representing the group say that they think 200 to 300 homes sit above a toxic plume of chemicals, putting residents’ health at risk and damaging their property values.
In 1993, Raytheon — then owner of the aviation plant — discovered solvent contamination in the soil and groundwater. The solvents were tracked back to three buildings on the campus where employees used equipment like vapor degreasers to clean and prepare metal for manufacturing…