Other Baron & Budd Milestone Water Contamination Cases

Baron & Budd, P.C. is not a newcomer to handling water contamination cases. The following cases represent some of the historic settlements we have achieved for other clients.

In 1985, Baron & Budd filed suit on behalf of more than 1,600 Tucson-area residents against an aircraft manufacturer, the City of Tucson and the Tucson Airport Authority over TCE contamination of the community’s groundwater. The residents had suffered a variety of injuries caused by their exposure to contaminants in the city’s water supply, including several unusual forms of cancer—particularly among children —that Baron & Budd found to be at almost epidemic levels.

By the conclusion of litigation in 2006, Baron & Budd had helped to define Arizona law on pollution coverage issues and had been presented by Public Justice with its “Trial Lawyer of the Year Award” for contributing greatly to the public interest by trying a precedent-setting case. Read more…

In 2003, Baron & Budd represented the City of Santa Monica in a landmark settlement with several major oil companies over the MTBE contamination of five of Santa Monica’s eleven wells. This substantial settlement enables the city to build a needed water treatment system to monitor and clean MTBE from the city’s water supply and to continue buying imported water until the city’s own supply is potable by 2010. Read more…

Baron & Budd represented Communities for a Better Environment, a California environmental group, in reaching agreements in March and September 2004 with several oil companies, including ExxonMobil, Shell Oil Co., Atlantic Richfield Co., and ChevronTexaco, whereby the companies will upgrade gas stations, clean up groundwater contamination, and enact leak detection, leak prevention and other changes to its gasoline distribution system to protect California drinking water from contamination caused by over 1,000 leaking underground storage tanks throughout the state.

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