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Evansville to get $374K in herbicide suit deal
Updated: Wednesday, 23 Jan 2013, 8:37 AM EST
Published : Wednesday, 23 Jan 2013, 8:37 AM EST
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The city of Evansville will receive about $374,000 under a settlement of a class action lawsuit targeting a Swiss company that makes the herbicide Atrazine.
Evansville's Water and Sewer Utility department says the city's share of the settlement will reimburse it for costs associated with removing the weedkiller from the city's tap water. The southwestern Indiana city was one of 1,085 plaintiffs that sued Switzerland-based Syngenta Crop Protection.
The Evansville Courier & Press reports city officials say the settlement funds will be placed in its general fund to support the city's water filtration plant.
Utility officials say the herbicide commonly used to kill weeds in corn fields and other crops frequently runs off cropland into waterways or seeps into groundwater that are sources of drinking water.
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