City of Lindsay wins $9.5 million settlement to help clean up drinking waterThe city of Lindsay, California, announced a $9.5 million settlement with SQM North America Corp., a subsidiary of Chilean mining company Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile, in a lawsuit seeking the costs of removing the toxic chemical perchlorate from the city’s drinking water supply. After finding perchlorate in one of its drinking water supply wells, the city deactivated that well, and filed a lawsuit against SQM, claiming that the contamination resulted from applications of defective fertilizer SQM had imported in the first half of the 20th century.
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