New York City landfill lawsuit settled more than two decades later
By Jim Johnson
Thursday, August 15, 2013
New York City has agreed to pay $12 million to settle a 22-year-old lawsuit involving children who contracted cancer while living near the closed Pelham Bay landfill in the Bronx, according to local news reports.
The money will go to 12 families that had children develop leukemia, including three children who died.
The solid waste landfill closed in 1979, but not before more than a million gallons of toxic waste was illegally dumped their over the years, The New York Times reported.
Families of the sick children sued the city, alleging New York failed to stop the illegal dumping. City administrations, for years, fought the lawsuit while acknowledging the landfill’s problems. Settlement of the case came as a trial was scheduled to start next month, the newspaper said.
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