[CPEO-BIF] "New Jersey officials agreed to a $14 million settlement in a 2019 lawsuit involving groundwater contamination at a Montvale facility"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

$14M settlement reached in lawsuit over contaminated water at Montvale facility

By Kyle Morel
NorthJersey.com
May 16, 2024

New Jersey officials agreed to a $14 million settlement in a 2019 lawsuit involving groundwater contamination at a Montvale facility, the attorney general's office stated Thursday.

The settlement marks a resolution to the suit, filed in December 2019 against the Handy & Harman Electronic Materials Corp. and Cycle Chem Inc., formerly known as Perk Chemical Co. The companies will pay back the state for using TCE, a hazardous substance linked to cancer, at the Handy & Harman etching and surfacing site on Craig Road over a period of roughly two decades.

"The well-being of our communities depends on access to safe and uncontaminated water," Attorney General Matthew Platkin said in a statement. "Once again, our message is clear: We will pursue repayment and repair when corporate actions injure our natural resources. No one is above the law when environmental damages are at stake."


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For the entire article, see
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/2024/05/16/montvale-nj-contaminated-water-lawsuit-14m-settlement/73718838007/

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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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