Suit Blames Water Pollution for 20 Fatal Cancer Cases
More than 145 San Gabriel Valley residents have sued the Southern California Water Co. alleging that contaminated water has led to 20 deaths from cancer.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that industrial chemicals--which led the area’s subterranean water basin to be declared a Superfund cleanup site in 1984--seeped into the drinking water supply in an area of about three square miles encompassing parts of Temple City, Arcadia, Monrovia and El Monte.
A water company official said the company is investigating the allegations, but is not aware of any contaminants poisoning the drinking water supply.
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