Well this was an interesting read: Federal lawsuit from a Water company in New York against a battery energy storage company over contamination after a fire. For over a year I have expressed this very concern. Concern that if the battery storage units near water sources caught fire, the potential contamination to a critical resource such as water. In van zandt county we have at least 3 major water resources that would be impacted if this were to occur. 1. Carrizo Wilcox 2. Lake Tawakini 3. Cedar Creek Lake All of which are used for drinking water and would impact MILLIONS at a catastrophic scale. This is EXACTLY what I've been saying and this is just the first FEDERAL case to come forward. We are rushing industrial scale projects without knowing what the potential longterm implications will be. Once water is gone, we cannot create more. Citizen safety and welfare are prudent and must be taken seriously. Confirmed contamination in Missouri, California, and New York. Will Texas be next? Case 2:26-cv-03246-ARL Document 1 Filed 05/29/26 Page 1 of 29 Page SUFFOLK COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, Plaintiff, -against- EAST HAMPTON ENERGY STORAGE CENTER, LLC; LG CHEM, LTD.; and LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD., Defendants. Plaintiff Suffolk County Water Authority (“the Authority,” or “Plaintiff”) is a public drinking water provider serving approximately 1.2 million residents and businesses in Suffolk County, New York. The Authority brings this action to recover the substantial costs necessary to protect the public and restore its damaged drinking water supply wells, which are contaminated with the chemical perfluoropropionic acid (“PFPrA”), among potentially other chemicals, which were released during a fire at the East Hampton Energy Storage Center (“EHESC”). 2. EHESC is a lithium-ion battery energy storage system (“BESS”) that provides energy supply to the Long Island Power Authority (“LIPA”). On May 31, 2023, a thermal runaway event in battery cells at EHESC caused a fire (the “EHESC Fire”). During the EHESC Fire, battery casings opened and released their contents. Large amounts of water applied to fight the EHESC Fire ran off of the facility and onto the dirt road and undeveloped area south of EHESC, conveying chemicals from the batteries (“EHESC Contaminants”) along with it. The contaminated fire suppression water percolated into the ground and transported EHESC Contaminants to the groundwater, through which EHESC Contaminants migrated to wells in the Authority’s Bridgehampton Road wellfield (“Bridgehampton”). 3. The Authority has detected EHESC Contaminants in its Bridgehampton wells, including PFPrA, an ultrashort-chain per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substance (“PFAS”), at levels that exceed the 50 parts per billion (“ppb”) New York State maximum contaminant level (“MCL”) for unspecified organic contaminants (“UOC MCL”). 1 An MCL is the maximum level of a contaminant allowed in public drinking water which, once established, creates a standard that requires water systems to monitor contaminant levels, keep contaminant levels below the MCL, and report exceedances to customers. 4. The EHESC Contaminants include ultrashort-chain PFAS, which are known components of lithium-ion battery cells and/or environmental breakdown products of such components. “Ultrashort-chain PFAS” refers to PFAS molecules with two or three carbon atoms. There is a growing body of evidence of the toxicity of ultrashort-chain PFAS, including those detected in the Bridgehampton wells. 5. Additional EHESC Contaminants may have already or will soon arrive at the Bridgehampton wells. The Authority’s sampling, monitoring, and testing for EHESC Fire impacts is ongoing. 6. To prevent exposing its customers to elevated levels of EHESC Contaminants, and in response to the exceedances of the UOC MCL, the Authority has removed two Bridgehampton wells from service and restricted its use of the two other Bridgehampton wells.

Industrial growth is proving that our government has become tyrannical.

This is an important primer on what I call, “Government outrunning its headlights” looks like. Well done Nancy! You don’t lack for perseverance I’d say! 🫡