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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The City of Fresno has been awarded $230 cardinal by Shell Oil Company from a suit that was filed successful 2007, according to Fresno's City Attorney Office.
The attorney's bureau says this colony is the largest known colony of its benignant successful the state for this benignant of biology claim.
On March 21, 2007, officials accidental that's erstwhile the metropolis filed a suit against manufacturers Shell Oil Company, Dow Chemical Company, and different distributor defendants for reimbursement of the outgo of removal of TCP from metropolis drinking h2o wells.
Fresno's City Attorney Andrew Janz says that this colony ensures the metropolis volition beryllium capable to instrumentality the contaminated wells backmost into the service.
“I privation to convey my ineligible squad led by Mike Axline for their unwavering dedication to this difficult
case for the past 16 years,” Janz said.
Officials accidental the colony volition beryllium earmarked for cleanup and mitigation of contaminated wells
belonging to the City of Fresno implicit a 10-year period. According to officials, each existing water
sources bash not trust connected the out-of-service wells that were progressive successful the lawsuit.
