$27M Class Action Settlement Ends Lawsuit Over Alleged Hoosick Falls (NY) PFOA Drinking Water Contamination

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (EIDP, Inc.) has agreed to a $27,000,000 settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that alleged the chemical refinery contributed to the contamination of an aquifer that provides drinking water to the Town of Hoosick or the Village of Hoosick Falls, New York, with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) from its nearby Teflon fabric dispersion facility.

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The Hoosick Falls class action settlement received preliminary approval from the court on November 13, 2025, and covers all individuals who fit one or more of the following criteria:

• All individuals who are or were owners of eligible properties located in Hoosick or Hoosick Falls, purchased on or before December 16, 2025, that were supplied with drinking water from the Village Municipal Water System (the “Municipal Water Property” Settlement Class);
• All individuals who are or were owners of eligible properties located in Hoosick or Hoosick Falls that were supplied with drinking water from a private well contaminated with PFOA, which testing confirmed sometime after December 16, 2015 (the “Private Well Property” Settlement Class); and
• All individuals who, for a period of at least six months between 1996 and 2016, ingested water at their eligible property from a private well or the Municipal Water System in Hoosick or Hoosick Falls and who underwent testing that detected a PFOA level in their blood above 1.86 µg/L, including any children born to them with equal or higher PFOA blood levels (the “Medical Monitoring” Settlement Class).

The court-approved website for the Hoosick Falls PFOA contamination settlement can be found at https://HoosickFallsPFOASettlement.com/.

Importantly, the Municipal Water Property class and Private Well Property class are jointly referred to as the “Property Settlement Class” on many court documents. Per court documents, eligible property is considered any property that a class member can demonstrate they owned in Hoosick Falls or Hoosick that obtained its drinking water from the Village Municipal Water System or a private well identified as contaminated with PFOA through a water test on or after December 16, 2015.

The medical monitoring program was established under a 2021 settlement with Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. and Honeywell International, which operate EIDP’s McCaffery Street facility, and 3M, which makes the chemical used by DuPont to make its Teflon dispersion products, that provides screening and treatment for medical conditions related to PFOA exposure. Per the settlement agreement, EIDP will pay $6 million to supplement this program and expand coverage to individuals who did not qualify under the 2021 settlement, or who did not elect to enroll in the program initially.

According to the website, Hoosick Falls settlement class members who submit a timely, valid claim form are eligible to receive a one-time cash payment to be calculated by dividing the full market value of a class member’s eligible property (based on the 2015 County Assessment Roll) by the total market value of all eligible properties covered by the settlement based on the 2015 roll. This figure will then be multiplied by the net settlement fund after the payment of attorneys’ fees, lead plaintiff service awards, and the costs of settlement administration to determine each individual class member’s payout.

To submit a Hoosick Falls PFOA claim form online, class members can head to this page and either enter the unique class member ID and PIN listed on their copy of the settlement notice or select the option to file as a new class member.

Consumers who have questions about the settlement or their claim forms may also contact the settlement administrator to receive more information.

All Hoosick settlement claim forms must be submitted by February 11, 2026.

The court will determine whether to grant final approval to the Hoosick PFOA water contamination settlement at a hearing on April 29, 2026. Compensation will begin to be distributed to class members only after final approval is granted and any appeals are resolved.

The Hoosick Falls PFOA class action lawsuit alleged that DuPont contributed to the PFOA forever-chemical contamination of the Hoosick Falls aquifer that supplies drinking water to the community through the use of Teflon dispersion products at its nearby fabric processing plant. As a result, the lawsuit claimed, individuals living in and around Hoosick Falls unknowingly consumed drinking water that had unsafe PFOA levels, harming both their health and residential property values.

According to the settlement website, a public meeting will be held at the Hoosick Central School Auditorium on January 21, 2026, at 7:00 pm, where attorneys for the class will explain the settlement in detail and answer questions. On January 22, a workshop will be held at the Hoosick Falls Armory for anyone in need of assistance in completing their settlement claim forms.

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