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From the Courier Post:

Plastics firm settles Paulsboro suit

by Carly Q. Romalino

March 31, 2016

PAULSBORO – A West Deptford plastics company must pay for blood testing of Paulsboro residents who drank from the borough’s contaminated water supply.

Solvay Specialty Polymer and Arkema — entities that operated a manufacturing plant at 10 Leonard Lane in West Deptford — have not admitted its operations discharged PFNA (Perfluorononanoic acid) into the borough’s water supply, as a class-action lawsuit claims.

But the plastics manufacturers have agreed to settle the lawsuit by paying $1.84 million into two funds: a $420,000 fund for a small monetary award for Paulsboro residents, and a $1.42 million fund for resident blood tests. Read more

Class Action Eligibility

Individuals who lived in Paulsboro for at least a year between August 2009 and April 2014 or owned property between the dates of August 2013 and April 2014 may be entitled to compensation. Residents may also be eligible for a test to detect whether they have the chemical in their blood.

• See www.paulsborowatersettlement.com
• Details of the settlement are available from the Court’s docket, Case No. 1:14-cv-01870-NLH-JS.

Links

http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2016/03/31/solvay-paulsboro-settlement-lawsuit/82479794/

http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/index.ssf/2016/04/nj_plastics_company_settles_contaminated_water_law.html