[CPEO-MEF] Tewksbury (MA) perchlorate settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bard pays Tewksbury $100,000
Money is reimbursement for water contamination

By VANESSA HUGHES
Lowell Sun (MA)
May 3, 2005

TEWKSBURY -- Tewksbury yesterday received a $100,000 check from C.R. 
Bard as reimbursement for expenses the town incurred dealing with four 
months of contamination of its drinking water caused by the company's 
Billerica plant.

Town officials and representatives from Bard, a medical-device maker, 
had been negotiating a deal to avoid litigation after the town 
discovered in late November that Bard was releasing perchlorate into the 
Concord and Merrimack rivers.

The town estimates it spent more than $88,000 on work to identify the 
perchlorate source and also on expenses that included buying bottled 
water for the schools.

Town Manager David Cressman yesterday commended the company for its 
cooperation during the perchlorate investigation and for reimbursing the 
town.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lowellsun.com/local/ci_2705296

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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