There’s a $10 million settlement in the lawsuit filed by Salisbury against the engineering firm which designed the defective wastewater treatment plant.
Mayor Jim Ireton and Council President Terry Cohen signed the agreement last night with the firm O’Brien & Gere.
The company says it is doing so without any admission of fault.
The city spent over $60 million on the plant.
The new design by the national firm Brown & Caldwell is expected to run another $60 million.
The Salisbury Daily Times reports that John Sutphen with O’Brien & Gere said in a prepared statement that the settlement confirms his company’s commitment to the community.
He noted that his firm has spent 35 years supporting communities in the Chesapeake Bay region and almost 20 years working to help Salisbury comply with the state’s environmental regulations.
