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FILE - R-Mon Ford, 23 of Flint, puts freshly filled five-gallon jugs of water into his mother L'Tonya Payne's trunk on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the Flint water crisis during a water distribution on Saturday, April 24, 2021 at the Latinx Technology & Community Center in Flint, Mich. A second contractor says it has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint's lead-contaminated water scandal. Boston-based Veolia North America said Thursday, Jan. 31, 2024, that the class-action litigation agreement includes payments of $1,500 for individual minors. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP, File)

Firm announces $25M settlement over role in Flint, Michigan, lead-tainted water crisis

A second contractor says it has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated water scandal

By AP News
Published - Feb 01, 2024, 12:33 PM ET
Last Updated - Feb 01, 2024, 12:39 PM EST

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A second contractor said Thursday that it has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint, Michigan's lead-contaminated water scandal that officials say caused learning disabilities in scores of children and other medical problems among adults in the majority Black city.

The class-action litigation agreement includes payments of $1,500 for individual minors, according to Boston-based Veolia North America. The company says the agreement will resolve claims made on behalf of more than 45,000 Flint residents.

In July, the engineering firm Lockwood, Andrews & Newman said in a court filing that a confidential deal was reached with residents in federal court. Like Veolia North America, Lockwood, Andrews & Newman had been accused of being partially responsible for the water crisis in the city about 60 miles (95 kilometers) northwest of Detroit.

Flint, which was under state-appointed managers, used the Flint River for water in 2014-15, but the water wasn’t treated the same as water previously supplied by a Detroit-area provider. As a result, lead leached throughout the vast pipe system.

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