Butler Area School District, Superintendent Sued Over Lead-Poisoned Water

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A proposed class action filed on behalf of a minor claims the Butler Area School District in Butler County, Pennsylvania and its superintendent should be held responsible for the inadequate handling of a water crisis that allegedly led to students and adults being exposed to dangerous levels of lead- and copper-tainted water. The 18-page lawsuit says that the defendants received testing results in August 2016 that showed the presence of toxic levels of lead and copper “far in excess of acceptably safe water standards.”

From the lawsuit:

“The Defendants in concert with Defendant District’s Maintenance Director made a conscious and intentional decision to neither warn the students of this dangerous condition nor take any appropriate steps to fix the dangerous condition so as to protect [the plaintiff] and all other similarly situated students from the dangers related thereto. The affirmative actions of the Defendants and the District’s Maintenance Director created a dangerous environment, to-wit, a school full of poisonous drinking water that none of the students were aware of, for [the plaintiff] and all other similarly situated students.”