[CPEO-BIF] Springfield, Missouri families sue Northrop Grumman over TCE contamination

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Springfield families accuse company of contaminating drinking water with carcinogen
A federal lawsuit alleges Northrop Grumman concealed the full extent of trichloroethylene contamination in the area

BY ALLISON KITE 
MISSOURI INDEPDENDENT
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 

A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday claims Springfield residents whose homes are supplied with well water were exposed to a chemical known to cause cancer. 

Northrop Grumman, a Virginia-based aerospace and defense company, knew but failed to notify area residents for more than a decade about the extent to which trichloroethylene, or TCE, had seeped from an industrial site it owns near the Springfield-Branson Airport and contaminated the area’s groundwater, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri on behalf of two Springfield families. 

Plaintiffs were not notified their well water was contaminated until 2018. At that point, the company had known TCE was in the region’s aquifer for years and had discovered the chemical in another private well, according to the lawsuit. 

The contamination came to light because TCE was discovered at Fantastic Caverns, a tourist cave north of town. 

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For the entire article, see
https://missouriindependent.com/2021/09/29/springfield-families-accuse-company-of-contaminating-drinking-water-with-carcinogen/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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