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Liability losses following the contaminated water scandal in Walkerton, Ontario have already exceeded $50 million and there is still no end in sight, according to lawyers involved in the case.
Several people died and hundreds became ill as a result of E.-coli contamination at a town well. The town was forced to rely on bottled water for the entire summer of 2000 while the system was repaired and purged.
The Walkerton Compensation Plan is administered under the jurisdiction of Justice Warren Winkler of the Ontario Superior Court.
Insurers for the township and the public utilities commission settled the first $19 million in losses, while the province agreed to settle the remainder.
So far, the compensation plan has received more than 10,000 claims for compensation. It has been reported that Walkerton's population was 5,000 in 1999.
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