CAMERON, MO — As a result of the $105 million settlement of a class action lawsuit over atrazine, the City of Cameron has received $274,785.51 to help reimburse the costs of removing the weed killer from its community water system. Atrazine is sprayed on corn and other crops and frequently runs off of fields and into waterways used as drinking water sources. The City of Cameron acted as one of the class representatives for the suit that was settled last October. Since 2004 the St. Louis law firm of Korein Tillery and the Dallas firm of Barron & Budd have represented water providers across the country against Syngenta, the world’s largest atrazine manufacturer, based in Switzerland. Cameron was one of 1,085 water systems providing water to nearly 37 million people to benefit from this settlement. Individual amounts were calculated based on the contamination history of the claimants.
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