California school district files lawsuit over contaminated drinking water

SL Environmental Law Group recently announced that its client, Ballico-Cressey School District in Ballico, California, has filed a lawsuit against Dow Chemical and Shell Oil, sellers of pesticides that contained the chemical 1,2,3 trichloropropane, known as “TCP.” The lawsuit claims that these products have contaminated a well that the district uses to supply drinking water at Cressey School, where special drinking fountains have been installed to remove TCP from the water so it is safe to drink.

The district plans on installing a specialized water treatment system to remove TCP from the entire water supply at the school. TCP is a toxic and carcinogenic chemical that the State of California bans in drinking water except at very low levels.