Lodi News

City of Lodi settles TCP groundwater contamination suit

— Wes Bowers

LODI — The City of Lodi announced Friday that it has settled a lawsuit it brought against Shell Oil Company and the Dow Chemical Co. for contaminating groundwater with trichloropropane, or TCP, an undisclosed ingredient in soil fumigants used to kill nematodes that was sold by Shell and Dow for several decades in California.

“Dow, Shell and several of their distributors agreed to pay the City $32 million to remove TCP from wells before water is delivered to the public,” City Attorney Janice Magdich said. “The settlement preserves the city’s ability to pursue further damages should more wells become contaminated.”

The city’s lawsuit was one of a number of such cases filed by cities and water districts throughout California.

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