By Ken Sansone
20 SOURCE spring 2021
TCP CONTAMINATION
Product Liability
Law Helps Water
Agencies Address
TCP Contamination
SMALL WATER UTILITIES across California face
existential challenges as they struggle to meet
state and federal drinking water standards.
For example, more than 200 small water systems in
California today have groundwater that is contaminated
with the chemical 1,2,3-trichloropropane (TCP), a toxic
legacy from pesticides used for decades in agricultural
areas. Faced with shutting down wells in violation
of health standards, some of these water systems are
looking at product liability law to play a major role in
finding funds to clean up their water supplies. At stake
is a safe and reliable drinking water supply for hundreds
of thousands of people. ➔➔➔
TCP molecule
