LANSING, Mich. - If approved by a judge, Wolverine Worldwide and 3M will pay $54 million to 1,700 residences in northern Kent County harmed by PFAS contamination.
The proposed settlement came from a class action case filed in the wake of the pollution discovery five years ago.
This would resolve nearly all tort litigation from the 2017 discovery of severe PFAS contamination in the Rockford and Belmont area.
To be eligible for a settlement payout, a person must have owned property as of Nov. 1, 2017 which used well water in what state regulators define as the North Kent Study Area — a roughly 25-square mile area of Plainfield and Algoma townships and the city of Rockford.