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Important PFAS Lawsuit Update

Register your utility now to be eligible to recover any current or future expenses associated with PFAS testing, treatment and/or remediation.

PFAS Detections - Time Sensitive

If your system has had PFAS detections at any level or there is a potential contaminate source in your area, register your utility now to be eligible to recover any current or future expenses associated with PFAS testing, treatment and/or remediation.

As background, in 2019, the National Rural Water Association of which Massachusetts Rural Water is one of 49-member state rural water affiliates, engaged with the Law Firm of Napoli Shkolnik to file a cost recovery action so system could recover current and future expenses for testing, treatment and remediation of PFAS contamination. Additional background information is available at www.napolilaw.com/nrwa-pfas/.

The sole purpose was to provide systems the opportunity to recovery their expenses, but the system must be registered onto the cost recovery rolls prior to a settlement being reached. Settlement talks are under way thus we encourage your system to register onto the cost recovery rolls to benefit from this action. There are three key points to this action:

The action taken is cost recovery not punitive.

It is filed against the global manufactures of these forever compounds thus does not impact a local company who may have used them.

There is no upfront cost to register onto the rolls and benefit from this action, but a system must be registered prior to a settlement in order to benefit.

How To Register?

There is no threshold to register your utility and protect your utility and ratepayers from this financial burden. There are 3 ways to register your utility:

Register at www.napolilaw.com/nrwa-pfas . There is also additional information on PFAS, the cost recovery action and the law firm at this site.

Email Sam Wade, former CEO of the National Rural Water Association at Swade@napolilaw.com

Contact Sam Wade by phone at 580-917-1425

There is no timeframe for when a settlement will be reached but the settlement talks are underway, and systems must be registered to benefit from this action. The Massachusetts Rural Water Association encourages your system to register now. Formal presentations are also available to your utility and can be arranged by contacting Sam Wade at Swade@napolilaw.com or by phone at the above number.

Attached Files:

Mass Rural Water Association

781 Millers Falls Road, Northfield, MA 01360

Phone: 413-498-5779

Fax: 413-498-9943