Monday, October 22, 2007

Toxic Buffalo, NY Neighborhood Gets $7.2M

October 18, 2007 - Residents of a neighborhood built on contaminated soil would share $7.2 million under a settlement approved by a state Supreme Court judge Wednesday.

About 220 current and former residents and their family members have personal injury and property damage claims against the city, which developed the Hickory Woods subdivision in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a model of brownfields renewal.

If approved by the city's financial control board, the settlement would pay an average of $32,000 per claim.

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