DuPont Agrees to $27 Million Payout in Hoosick Falls Water Contamination

By Hillary Howard | The New York Times | July 9, 2025

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"A small town in upstate New York may be close to a final victory in a nearlydecade-long legal battle against some of the nation’s biggest companies over thecontamination of its water supply.

Corporate giant DuPont, one of the companies that produced a toxic chemicalfound in the water of Hoosick, a town with fewer than 7,000 people, has agreed to a $27 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit that drew the attention of celebrityenvironmental activist Erin Brockovich.

The contaminate was found in the public water supply of the village of HoosickFalls and throughout some private wells of the town of Hoosick, which contains thevillage."