United States District Court for the Northern District of New York

If you drank water supplied by the Village of Hoosick Falls Municipal Water System or from a private well in the Village of Hoosick Falls or the Town of Hoosick, or owned or rented property in the Village of Hoosick Falls or the Town of Hoosick, you could get benefits from a class action settlement.

A federal court authorized this Notice. It is not a solicitation from a lawyer.

• A Settlement has been reached with Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation (“Saint-Gobain”), Honeywell International Inc. (“Honeywell”), and the 3M Company (“3M”) (the “Settling Defendants”) in a class action lawsuit about the effects of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) contamination in and around Hoosick Falls.
• The Settlement includes all individuals who:
  • for a period of at least six months between 1996 and 2016, have ingested water supplied by the Village Municipal Water System or from a private well in the Village of Hoosick Falls or Town of Hoosick in which PFOA has been detected, and underwent blood serum tests that detected a PFOA level in their blood above 1.86 µg/L; or any natural child who was born to a female who meets and/or met the above criteria at the time of the child’s birth and whose blood serum was tested after birth and detected a PFOA level above 1.86 µg/L (“Medical Monitoring Settlement Class Members”);
  • are or were owners of Residential Property that was supplied with drinking water from the Village Municipal Water System, and who purchased that property on or before December 16, 2015 and owned that property as of December 16, 2015 (“Municipal Water Property Settlement Class Members”);
  • are or were owners or renters of Residential Property located in the Village of Hoosick Falls or the Town of Hoosick that was supplied with drinking water from a privately-owned well in which PFOA was detected, had a point-of-entry treatment (POET) system installed to filter water from that well, and who either owned and occupied that property at the time PFOA in the property’s private well was discovered through a water test on or after December 16, 2015; or rented and occupied the property at the time PFOA in the property’s private well was discovered through a water test on or after December 16, 2015 (“Nuisance Settlement Class Members”); and
  • are or were owners of Residential Property located in the Village of Hoosick Falls or the Town of Hoosick that was supplied with drinking water from a private well in which PFOA was detected, and who owned that property at the time PFOA in the property’s private well was discovered through a water test on or after December 16, 2015 (“Private Well Water Property Settlement Class Members”).
• Your legal rights are affected regardless of whether you act or don’t act. Read the Notice carefully.