[CPEO-BIF] Pompton Lakes (NJ) residents sue Dupont

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pompton Lakes residents begin suing DuPont over pollution


BY JAMES M. O’NEILL AND ELAINE D’AURIZIO
Bergen Record (NJ)
March 4, 2010

More than 350 residents of a Pompton Lakes neighborhood beset with 
groundwater pollution began suing DuPont and another company Thursday 
seeking financial damages on claims they have lost property values.

The complaints also want DuPont to provide medical monitoring of 
illnesses the residents say they suffered because of the contamination, 
and they demand that DuPont clean up the groundwater contamination under 
their homes.

About 50 of the complaints were filed on behalf of individual residents 
Thursday in state Superior Court in Passaic County by Weitz and 
Luxenberg, a New York law firm representing the residents.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/crime_courts/030410_Pompton_Lakes_residents_begin_suing_DuPont_over_pollution.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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