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Landowners cite dead wildlife, seek relief from solar farm

July 31, 2024 - 00:00
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Council representing neighboring landowners of the Rio Lago Solar Farm argued last Thursday in an emergency hearing that fish and other aquatic life died due to contamination coming from the solar farm’s construction site. That hearing is set to continue Thursday, Aug. 1, but council for Rio Lago Solar Farm described the accusations as an impossible overdramatization.Council for the property owners argued that contaminated soil was washed by rain down to property owners’ land, where it killed wildlife.Thursday’s continuance is expected to address other aspects of an ongoing dispute between residents and the solar farm.Litigation over the farm’s construction has ...

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