Cryptosporidium Lawyer & Attorney : Marler Clark : Cryptosporidium Blog

By CRAIG FOX

Finger Lakes Times
cfox@fltimes.com

Three law firms representing 663 people who became ill after visiting the Seneca Lake State Park Sprayground last summer want to combine their efforts into one class action lawsuit.

A hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 18 in Syracuse, where the Seattle firm of Marler Clark and Rochester attorney Paul Nunes of Utterberg & Kessler will ask a Court of Appeals judge to let them join their cases with those of the Dreyer Boyajian law firm in Albany.

Nunes and the Seattle firm were already working together on a class action suit against the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, which owns and runs the park.

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AXcess News
By Staff
December 18, 2005

(AXcess News) Washington - The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it finalized two related drinking water protection rules - one that reduces the risk of disease-causing microorganisms from entering water supplies and the other that requires water systems to limit the amount of potentially harmful "disinfection byproducts" (DBPs) that end up in our drinking water.

Signed as the EPA enters the 31st anniversary year for the Safe Drinking Water Act, the rules were proposed in August 2003, and were developed from consensus recommendations from a federal advisory committee comprised of state and local governments, tribes, environmental, public health and water industry groups.

"Clean drinking water is a key ingredient to keeping people healthy and our economy strong," said EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. "Over the past seven years EPA has worked collaboratively with stakeholders to develop regulations that will provide a balance between the need to disinfect drinking water and protect citizens from potentially harmful contaminants."

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Suzanne Schreck
206-346-1879
sschreck@marlerclark.com

ROCHESTER, NY (December 19, 2005) - Attorneys from Marler Clark, Underberg & Kessler, and Dreyer Boyajian filed a motion Friday for certification of a class action lawsuit against the State of New York Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation. If the class action is certified, all persons who became ill with Cryptosporidiosis and/or were otherwise damaged as a result of the Cryptosporidium outbreak at the Seneca Lake State Park Spraypark in 2005 would be eligible to join the class and receive compensation for their injuries and economic damages.

The New York State Health Department shut down the Sprayground on August 15, 2005, after it was determined that the Sprayground's water holding tanks, which were used to recycle water, were contaminated with Cryptosporidium. On August 26, the Health Department issued an update on its investigation into the outbreak, announcing that 3,297 cases of Cryptosporidium had been reported in 33 New York counties. Of those cases, 415 were confirmed cases reported to the State Health Department. Thirty-three people had been hospitalized with Cryptosporidiosis.

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