Sheet Metal Company, Founder To Pay $1.2M Over Groundwater Contamination

(August 2, 2019, 12:13 PM EDT) -- WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A sheet metal and metal fabrication company and its founder on July 22 entered into agreements with the federal government in New York federal court in which they agreed to pay a combined $1.2 million toward remediation of a Superfund site with groundwater contaminated with trichloroethane (TCE) that the company used during its operations (United States v. Hopewell Precision Inc., et al., No. 19-cv-06749, S.D. N.Y.)....