$14M settlement reached in lawsuit over contaminated water at Montvale facility
Source: https://www.northjersey.com/, May 16, 2024
By: Kyle Morel
New Jersey officials agreed to a $14 million settlement in a 2019 lawsuit involving groundwater contamination at a Montvale facility, the attorney general’s office stated Thursday.
The settlement marks a resolution to the suit, filed in December 2019 against the Handy & Harman Electronic Materials Corp. and Cycle Chem Inc., formerly known as Perk Chemical Co. The companies will pay back the state for using TCE, a hazardous substance linked to cancer, at the Handy & Harman etching and surfacing site on Craig Road over a period of roughly two decades. Read more.