Why stop with suing the folks who sold it to the errant cleaners? Why not sue the folks who delivered, the folks who made the truck and or trains that delivered, the folks who paved the roads the trucks drove on, the guys who worked on the railroad that carried the train cars? This is called looking for a settlement.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing three chemical companies and a defunct dry-cleaning supply business over the contamination of several drinking water wells.The suit, filed in federal court in Brooklyn, is an attempt to recover at least some of the $30 million the city and state expect to spend cleaning up an underground plume of the dry cleaning chemical perchloroethylene, or PCE, believed to have leaked from a former distribution facility in the Jamaica section of Queens.

The distributor, the West Side Corp., ceased operations at the site in 1990, but the chemical was found to have infiltrated the soil and groundwater throughout the neighborhood.

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