The Borough of Ambler filed a lawsuit on December 13th claiming that 3M and 23 other companies designed, manufactured, marketed, distributed, supplies and/or sold film-foaming form products (“AFFF”) and certain chemical ingredients that were incorporated into their products resulting in the contamination and pollution of the natural resources in and the around the borough. The pollutants according to the complaint were “toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances” commonly referred to as PFAS.

The complaint then explains how the borough provides water to the public and testing and monitoring have shown “elevated concentrations of PFAS chemicals in Amber’s resources and properties.

Through the suit, the borough seeks to “recover past, current, and future costs, losses, damages, and other relief” tied to the “actual or potential presence” of toxic PFAS traceable to AFFF products in the Borough’s waters and water systems.

You can view the lawsuit that was filed with the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas here.