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23 LI water districts offered $39.5M in MTBE settlement
By William J. Dubanevich - Last updated: Tuesday, November 30, 1999
Twenty-three Long Island water districts have been offered a total of $39.5 million in a settlement from major oil companies concerning contamination of public water wells. The water districts sued the oil companies over the contamination of public water wells by the gasoline additive MTBE, the abbreviation for methyl tertiary butyl ether. The settlement funds [...]
