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Local sewer authority warns PFAS settlement could shift major cleanup costs to ratepayers
Summary
The Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority told West Windsor officials on Nov. 10 that a proposed $450 million settlement with PFAS manufacturers could include a covenant preventing later lawsuits, which the authority says would shift significant future PFAS treatment and cleanup costs onto sewer ratepayers and municipal budgets.
The Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority briefed the West Windsor Township Council on Nov. 10 about PFAS contamination, a pending proposed settlement with manufacturer 3M and the risks the authority says the deal could pose to municipal ratepayers.
Arun, West Windsor's representative to the authority, said SBRSA has tracked available treatment capacity for its River Road wastewater plant and now faces an additional regulatory and financial question: a proposed $450 million statewide settlement with 3M and others that SBRSA officials say contains a broad covenant not to sue. "If we accept the settlement, 3M is released from state liability," Arun said, and the covenant language, as drafted, could prevent wastewater treatment authorities from later seeking reimbursement for PFAS-treatment…
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