Kimberly-Clark contaminated New Milford waterways with PFAS, new lawsuit alleges

NEW MILFORD – A new lawsuit is accusing the Kimberly-Clark Corp., a producer of paper goods for household brands such as Huggies, Kleenex and Scott, of contaminating local water sources, including the Housatonic River, with dangerous “forever chemicals” over the course of decades.

The lawsuit was filed Oct. 14 by Silver Golub & Teitell on behalf of Minah McBreairty, whose property on Kent Road in New Milford sits directly across from a 165-acre, unlined landfill operated by Kimberly-Clark from 1969 to 2010.

The suit claims testing done in April 2024 revealed that drinking water from McBreairty’s well contained high levels of PFOS and PFOA, two of the most hazardous types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The PFOS concentration of 8.74 nanograms per liter and PFOA concentration of 4.83 nanograms per liter far exceeded maximum levels deemed safe by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to the lawsuit.

Kimberly-Clark contaminated New Milford waterways with PFAS, new lawsuit alleges

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