Daikin America has settled with the West Morgan-East Limestone Water Authority in the authority’s lawsuit over contamination of the Tennessee River.
On Tuesday the water authority and Daikin jointly filed a motion in federal court to dismiss Daikin from the lawsuit.
3M and Dyneon are also named in the suit, which accuses them of dumping cancer-causing chemicals in the river where the water authority draws its water for customers.
West Morgan-East Lawrence Water Authority officials confirmed Wednesday that they had received settlement money from Daikin.
The money was paid toward a bond the water authority issued to build a filtration plant to ensure any cancer-causing chemicals were removed from their water supply.
The water authority sued the three companies in 2015 on behalf of customers.
In May 2016 the Environmental Protection Agency lowered its recommended levels of the cancer-causing chemicals in drinking water and advised pregnant women and breast-feeding mothers not to drink the water.
The move also spurred construction of the water authority’s carbon-filtration plant.

RICHLAND, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – Kalamazoo County residents will get a closer look at what is in their drinking water Wednesday, as local and state health departments meet in Richland to discuss testing results.
The testing centered around the site of the former Production Plated Plastics company along 34th Street near M89, northeast of Gull Lake High School in Richland Township.
That level is higher than the EPA allows.
Those families were provided water while testing continued.
PFAS can put you at a higher risk for cancer among other bad health effects.
There are 31 sites across Michigan where MDEQ confirms there are PFAS in the water.
This list includes two locations in Rockford and two in Plainfield Township.
3M, which makes products like Scotchguard and other firefighting foams, is being blamed for the large amount of PFAS found in 33 locations across the state.
Wednesday night’s meeting is expected to update local residents on the situation.
The meeting will take place at the Living Hope Community Church.

PFAS chemicals are linked to thyroid and liver disease and an increased risk for certain cancers and other illnesses.
Brenda Lantinga has lived in Richland her entire life, living in a farmhouse directly West of Production Plated Plastics from 1971 to 1975, a time when the manufacturing site was still operational.
"I’ve said for years that the drinking water for Richland had to be contaminated," Lantinga said.
Richland Township resident Deb Bogema said she remembers when Production Plated Plastics was in operation and contaminating the groundwater in the 1980s and 90s, adding that she was highly involved in improving the water quality in the area.
When the groundwater was found to be contaminated, Bogema said her goal was to get safe, city water to the schools and homes close to the Production Plated Plastics site.
Samples from the four wells already tested showed levels of PFAS above the Environmental Protection Agency’s health advisory level of 70 parts-per-trillion.
Three of the households that tested for high PFAS levels were provided bottled water, while one was not because the residents did not use their well water for drinking.
State officials are currently testing an additional 24 residential wells in an about 400-acre area east of the former Production Plated Plastics site.
If continually exposed to the chemical, high levels of PFAS can build up in the body and may cause adverse health effects.
Bogema’s water is part of the DEQ’s second round of testing that started July 10.

The RTDNA called the investigative reporting “an amazingly well-told, thorough examination of a serious problem.” Carnegie-Knight News21 is a national reporting initiative headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, which brings top journalism students from across the country to report and produce in-depth, multimedia projects for major media outlets.
Konieczny was chosen in the spring of her senior year for the summer 2017 internship.
She is the third St. Bonaventure student to be chosen.
Lian Bunny, Class of 2016, earned the Carnegie-Knight News21 internship the year before and Bryce Spadafora, Class of 2018, is doing the internship this summer.
+6 Konieczny is working this summer as a paralegal/marketing intern with the Sommer Law Group in Pittsburgh.
This fall, she begins her second year of law school at the University of New Hampshire, where she plans to specialize in intellectual property (copyright and trademark) law.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation joined forces in 2005 to launch News21 as a cornerstone of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education.
More than 500 top journalism students in the United States have participated in the landmark national initiative, exploring topics such as gun rights, veterans’ issues, and food safety.
Work produced by News21 has appeared in major media outlets including The Washington Post, NBC News and USA Today.

But city officials stressed drinking water wells were shut off well before it reached, and now exceeded, the EPA recommended advisory levels of safe drinking water.
City officials and the consultants contracted to monitor the drinking water have been keeping watch on contaminant levels at the monitoring sites and in the drinking wells, Storer said.
When the Ireland Well in the Pudding Hill Aquifer recorded a concentration of 48 parts per trillion of PFOA and PFOS parts per trillion on June 28, the decision was made stop drawing water from the well, Storer said.
PFOA stands for perfluorooctanoic acid; PFOS stands for perfluorooctanesulfonic acid; and PFHpA stands for perfluoroheptanoic acid — all human-made chemicals.
Storer said the Ireland Well had recently been recording levels of between 6-10 ppt.
He said while he would love to have zero level, it is just not realistic.
Storer said a recently dug well, known as Dover Pudding Hill 1 (DPH1) in the Pudding Hill Aquifer, was shut off as a precautionary measure until hydrologists can confirm that using the well isn’t sucking the plume towards it.
When online, the Pudding Hill Aquifer can provide about 1 million gallons of water per day, Storer said.
Still, without Pudding Hill, the city has a supply capacity of approximately 5 million gallons of water a day, Storer said.
Because of the contamination issue and because the region is considered in a moderate drought by the U.S. Drought Monitor, Joyal encouraged residents and businesses to be conscientious with their water usage.

KALAMAZOO, MI — Contamination from a shuttered electro-plating company was well-known in Richland Township in the 1980s and 90s, but recent tests showing PFAS compounds in nearby drinking water wells present a new environmental threat from the state-owned site.
Until recently, the groundwater discharge from the site had never been tested for PFAS, Dean said.
History of contamination Established in 1969, Production Plated Plastics engaged in molding, electroplating, and painting of plastic automobile parts at its Richland facility.
In 1986, the company began pumping tainted groundwater from wells at the site.
The electro-plating company was ordered to close its Richland Township facility and pay for environmental cleanup at the site.
Per the city’s request, the DEQ ceased discharge from the former Production Plated Plastics site on June 21, Dean said.
Meanwhile, the city of Kalamazoo provides drinking water to Richland Township.
Kalamazoo County Drain Commissioner Pat Crowley, a township resident, said the water system was expanded due to known contamination at the Production Plated Plastics site.
Baker said 99 wells that provide drinking water to area were tested for PFAS by the DEQ on June 22.
The EPA required all public water systems to test for PFAS under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

DOVER — The city has shut down a drinking water well connected to the Pudding Hill Aquifer because of migration containments after recent tests were above the EPA health advisory.
City Manager Michael Joyal informed the City Council of the developments in an email late Monday night.
This is occurring despite efforts made to protect the wells from the spread of contaminants from the former Madbury Metals site,” Joyal said, referencing the now-closed metal recycling yard located in the area of Pudding Hill and Knox Marsh roads in Madbury.
Joyal said the well had not been used for drinking water production since late last month.
At the time the well was discontinued for drinking water, the Ireland Well was below the EPA health advisory levels.
Joyal said the Ireland Well will be offline and the city will limit the use of its new DPH1 Well, which also draws from the Pudding Hill Aquifer.
“We have notified and will be seeking assistance from N.H. Dept.
PFOA stands for perfluorooctanoic acid; PFOS stands for perfluorooctanesulfonic acid; and PFHpA stands for perfluoroheptanoic acid — all man-made chemicals.
Joyal said the recent upgrades to the Lowell Avenue Treatment Plant along with the other wells operating in Dover, the city will be able to maintain an “adequate and safe supply of public drinking water.” Because of the recent developments and because the region is considered in a moderate drought by the U.S. Drought Monitor, Joyal encouraged residents and businesses to be conscientious with their water usage.
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Bill Theisen has myopia (Letter to the Editor, The NEWS, June 27).
He misleads the public just as industry does by using a small preliminary study to come to absolute conclusions about fracking and drinking water contamination.
The results of the study are just what we would hope for!
Now there is a baseline against which possible future contamination will be compared, just as the University of Cincinnati study concludes.
The following are links to articles about drinking water contamination caused by horizontal fracking including reference to the federal EPA Drinking Water Study which concluded there can be drinking water contamination caused by fracking.
The UC study in eastern Ohio was not conclusive.
It only examined 22 wells over a short time period with the lead researcher stating that it’s vitally important that “the people of eastern Ohio should have access to regular monitoring so that they know whether well-casing failures or surface spills have occurred and that their drinking water is still safe.
Higher methane content has been linked to well-casing issues and spills in other areas, including the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania.” Further questioned about the water-quality study’s results, the UC professor agreed that “it’s an overstatement to say the study found no evidence of ‘drinking water contamination’ since it had a relatively narrow focus.
It wasn’t looking for some types of contaminants.”

(KUTV) — Panguitch City is now on a boil order following contamination found in the water supply Saturday.
Residents were warned not to drink the water after bacteria was detected from mud and other contaminants from a flash flood credit to the burn-off from last year’s Brian Head Fire.
Boiling kills bacteria and other organisms in the water.
"These bacteria can make you sick, and are a particular concern for people with weakened immune systems," the notice from the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office stated and posted on Facebook.
Residents are advised not to drink the city water without boiling it first.
"Bring all water to a boil, let it boil for one minute, and let it cool before using, or use bottled water," the advisory stated.
Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes, and food preparation until further notice, the advisory also stated.
For more information, please contact the Garfield County Sheriffs Office at 435-676-2678.
General guidelines on ways to lessen the risk of infection by microbes are available from the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791.

Snyder asked the state’s attorney general to file a lawsuit against 3M, the company that is believed to have contaminated drinking water with their Scotchgard and firefighting foam products, which contain PFAS.
The chemicals have contaminated more than 30 sites throughout the state, including 700 private wells in Kent County through Wolverine Worldwide’s dumping of waste containing Scotchgard.
In the letter to A.G. Bill Schuette, the governor said these products are the "determining contributor" to the presence of PFAS in Michigan resident’s drinking water.
After the news, several Michigan lawmakers responded to Snyder initiating the legal proceedings against 3M.
State representative, Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids), introduced a bill in December to make Michigan the strictest state on PFAS in the nation.
She gave Snyder credit for the move.
"Other states, including Minnesota and New York, have already taken similar legal action," said Kildee.
"Attorney General Schuette must act to hold companies accountable for the damage they have caused."
He said that Wolverine Worldwide and other parties using 3M’s products are responsible.
The attorney general’s office said on Friday that they received the request are they are now reviewing it.