(Source: The Daily Press, January 28, 2015)
ASHLAND, Wisc. — Xcel Energy has reached a $10.5 million settlement with a pair of railroad companies who are among the entities named in a lawsuit filed by Xcel asserting they share responsibility for contamination on the Ashland waterfront caused by activities that include a manufactured gas plant that operated for decades from the late 1800s until the 1940s at the site near Chequamegon Bay. The railroads named in the 2013 lawsuit are the Soo Line and the Wisconsin Central Ltd.
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