[fullwidth background_color=”” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding_top=”20″ padding_bottom=”20″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”underline solid” sep_color=”#000000″ margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” class=”” id=””]St. Cloud joins lawsuit accusing a company of fixing a cost for a chemical to purify water[/title][fusion_text]Wednesday, January 20th 2016
The city of St. Cloud last week joined a class-action lawsuit that accuses companies of fixing the cost of a chemical used to purify drinking water. If price-fixing did occur, it could have cost St. Cloud taxpayers more than $850,000. St. Cloud found a discrepancy of the price the city has paid for liquid aluminum sulfate compared to market estimates of what the chemical might have cost. St. Cloud joins Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth and Rochester in the lawsuit. The Minneapolis-based law firm Lockridge Grindal Nauen filed the first lawsuit on behalf of Rochester on December 1st. The firm’s complaint alleges the manufacturers and distributors of aluminum sulfate conspired to artificially boost the price of their product, which if true would violate federal antitrust laws. The city uses aluminum sulfate to help remove impurities from river water at its water treatment plant.
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