Excerpt from the Commercial Dispatch, March 16, 2018. Read the full article here.
After nearly 15 years, Maranatha Faith Center is receiving what its attorney described as potentially the largest property damage claim ever settled in Lowndes County's history, after the discovery of creosote on its property from the former Kerr-McGee plant.
On March 8, Bankruptcy Court Judge Jason Woodard granted a January request from the church to use the remaining money left over from a 2016 $10.59 million property damage claim settlement with Tronox to go to the church, according to an order in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Aberdeen. Maranatha is located on Waterworks Road, southeast of the former Kerr-McGee site.
On Jan. 29, the church moved to receive the rest of the money left over from the settlement, which is $7.89 million.