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Litchfield and Hillsboro Receives Settlement

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:44:08 CST

(Hillsboro)--The City of Litchfield and Hillsboro have received their portion of a 105 million dollar atrazine class action settlement. According to Litchfield City Hall, the city received over two hundred and ten thousand dollars in the settlement. The City of Hillsboro received just over three hundred thousand dollars.

The money will be used to help reimburse the cost of removing the weed killer from their community water systems. The cities of Litchfield and Hillsboro were two of over a thousand cities to benefit from the settlement.