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John D.S. Al len, president of
the WRD Board of Directors, said,
"WRD is working wit h the water
systems throughout its service area to
identify and treat wells that have been
contaminated with PFAS to ensure the
safety of these crucial water supplies.
Through this lawsuit, WRD is seeking to
protect the ratepayers in our service area
and ensure that the costs of cleaning
up these contaminants are borne by
3M, DuPont and other companies that
sold and profited from their products
containing PFAS.”
PFAS are persistent toxic chemicals
that bioaccumulate when released
into the environment. Exposure to
certain PFAS have been associated
with several negative health outcomes
in both humans and animals. PFAS
have impacted surface water and
groundwater throughout the country
resulting in hundreds of similar suits
brought forward by water providers
(mostly against the same defendants)
in an ongoing multidistrict litigation
supervised by a federal judge in
South Carolina.
PFAS have been used for decades
in AFFF, certain industrial processes
and the production of thousands of
common household and commercial
products that are heat resistant, stain
resistant, long lasting and water and
oil repellant. The PFAS family of
chemicals are entirely man-made and
do not exist in nature.
“The manufacturers and sellers
of PFAS containing products — 3M,
DuPont, and other defendants —
knew that these products would likely
pollute groundwater, yet they failed
to take reasonable and available steps
to avoid the use of PFAS in products
and failed to provide warnings that
using these products as directed could
result in groundwater contamination,”
said Ken Sansone, partner at SL
Environmental Law Group, which
represents WRD. “Through this
lawsuit, WRD is asserting its rights
under California law to ensure the
quality and availability of water
resources to the millions of citizens
and businesses who rely on those
resources. WRD wants to ensure that
it is the corporations whose products
are responsible for contaminating
its water pay the substantial costs of
cleaning it up.”
S L E nv i r o nme nt a l L aw i s
handl ing WRD's case as par t of a
consortium of law firms representing
municipal it ies and other water
providers across the nation in efforts
t o re cover the c o s t s of t reat ing
groundwater contamination from the
corporations whose products caused
the contamination. This group of
firms is representing many of the
water systems within WRD's service
area, as well as other water systems
throughout southern Cal i for n ia
and across the country affected
by PFAS. S
WRD SUES PFAS COMPANIES
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