Residents had complained for more than a month that their water looked cloudy.
“I’m here today because I’m scared. Later on down the line I could be sick my children could be sick from this," tenant Rebecca Perkins said.
Perkins is one of three dozen who’ve signed on with attorney Sanford Rubenstein. The high profile lawyer said they are suing NYCHA for $10 million even though the tests from Illinois-based lab Environmental Monitoring and Technologies — were apparently false. The company known as EMT says it accidentally put arsenic in the test samples while looking for silver sediment, but that nothing had contaminated the water.
“Victims have a right to damages even if they’re not sick but fear getting sick in this situation," Rubenstein said. Tenant Shequane Mitchell showed NBC 4 New York the water that had once been murky now runs clear. Civil rights activist Rev. Kevin McCall is not reassured. “We don’t know if the water is good or if it's bad,” McCall, founder of the Crisis Action Center said."We don't know....there's trust issues between the Mayor, NYCHA and the residents. We don't know who to believe."“We know there’s years of distrust in NYCHA and rightfully so.
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