Daikin Settles Allegations of PFOA Contamination in Alabama

Chemical manufacturer Daikin America Inc. will pay $5 million under a settlement with a Northern Alabama water utility to resolve allegations that fluorinated compounds from its facility contaminated drinking water supplies earlier this year.

In the settlement with Northern Alabama’s West Morgan-East Lawrence Water and Sewer Authority, announced Sept. 1, Daikin America agreed to install an activated carbon filtration system at the water authority at a cost of $3.9 million, attorney Carl Cole, of Decatur, Ala.-based The Cole Law Firm LLC, told Bloomberg BNA Sept. 2. Cole represents the water authority.

Of the remaining amount, $450,000 would go toward reimbursing ...