{Charleston, West Virginia}...The Charleston Sanitary Board will get more than $2.6 million from New York-based O'Brien & Geer Engineers, a company hired in 1994 to design a facility to make compost out of yard waste and sewage sludge generated in the city of Charleston. A lawsuit alleged the $4.2 million facility that began operating in 1998 never worked properly. Kanawha Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib Jr. said the company failed to design and build the composting facility as it promised. The Charleston Sanitary Board filed its lawsuit in 2000, seeking $1.5 million in damages. Zakaib awarded the board $1.57 million in damages and $1.06 million in interest.
