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Three Parkersburg residents have filed a lawsuit seeking class action status against DuPont, charging the company with contaminating their drinking water with perfluorooctanoic acid – also called C8.
A similar lawsuit was filed against the company two years ago on behalf of more than 70,000 southeastern Ohio and West Virginia residents who claimed they were affected by potentially hazardous chemical. DuPont settled that lawsuit for $343 million last year.
The company uses C8 to make Teflon and other stain- and water-resistant coatings at its West Virginia Washington Works plant along the Ohio River. Environmental Protection Agency scientists suspect that the acid is a “likely” carcinogen.
Recent tests have found C8 in Parkersburg drinking water at 65 parts per trillion. The plant manager called that amount “very small,” but plaintiff''s attorney Harry Deitzler disagreed.
According to Deitzler, those C8 levels are significant since nobody knows for sure at what point the chemical is no longer harmful to humans.
Parkersburg is a town of 33,000 people. The residents there were not among the group who filed the first class action lawsuit. However, the same team of lawyers who filed that lawsuit also filed this new one.
They are asking the court to make DuPont pay for the medical monitoring of Parkersburg residents, a condition the company agreed to in the previous case.
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