Law Firm Plans Class Action Suit in Blades Water Contamination Case

"If there’s a facility and it’s part of their chemical process, then that facility for sure would be the only one on the hook," she tells WBOC.
Caro says in the suit, they will ask for a medical monitoring fund, which would pay for clients to be proactively tested for diseases possibly contracted from long term exposure to the contaminated water.
Caro says the suit would only be against the party responsible for the contamination, not the town of Blades or any Delaware state agencies.
The potential suit comes as the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is still investigating the cause of the contamination.
Blades Town Administrator Vikki Prettyman says the agency is currently scheduling expanded well tests to help find the source.
"Wells that need to be sampled and the time frame [to be tested]– like every three months or six months."
Prettyman says after the results come back, the town and DNREC can develop their next steps.
She says once the information is in, they will hold a public meeting, as they did many times when the situation first arose.
She says the town is also looking at expanding their water service to private wells that currently are using temporary filters to make the water safe to drink.
Prettyman says they plan to have their next public meeting in June, the same month that Napoli Shkolnik hopes to discover the cause of the contamination and file the class action.

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