MERCED, Calif. ? The Central California city of Merced will pay a $1.5 million settlement after a federal jury found that thousands of residents of a subdivision were potentially exposed to a cancer-causing chemical, a newspaper reported Friday.
In March, the jury found that hazardous levels of hexavalent chromium had leaked from a manufacturing plant in Merced?s Beachwood subdivision and spread into the air and water.
The jury found residents could have been exposed to the chemical ? which was made famous in the film ?Erin Brockovich? ? for 25 years through the air, through water in an irrigation canal where residents swam and fished, and through floodwaters in 2006 that had picked up contaminated soil from the plant.
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