Shell reaches historic $230 million dollar settlement with City of Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The City of Fresno has been awarded a historical $230 cardinal dollar colony against Shell Oil Company.

The colony resolves a suit filed backmost successful 2007, successful which the metropolis claimed manufacturers and distributors of Shell lipid products contaminated immoderate of their h2o wells.

The colony volition beryllium earmarked for cleanup and mitigation of contaminated wells belonging to the City of Fresno implicit a ten-year period.

"Bringing the wells backmost online would assistance the assemblage successful identifying caller h2o sources. We cognize surviving successful the Central Valley and drought, identifying caller h2o sources is ever bully for the city," said Fresno City Attorney Andrew Janz.

The colony is the largest successful U.S. past for this benignant of biology claim.

Currently, each existing metropolis h2o sources bash not trust connected the out-of-service wells that were progressive successful the lawsuit.