DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The City of Delray Beach reached a settlement with a wastewater inspector who faced retaliation.
Christine Ferrigan filed her federal lawsuit in July 2022, against the city of Delray Beach, city manager Terrence Moore and utility director Hassan Hadjimiry.
Ferrigan worked in wastewater management for more than 30 years until she was fired. That came after she raised concerns of contaminated drinking water to the Florida Department of Health and Palm Beach County Office of Inspector General. Ferrigan reported the contaminated water was making some sick.
"When they turned on the tap water it was yellow, it had sand, it had allege, it had grit," Ferrigan told CBS12 News in April 2022.
Ferrigan continued to work alongside the health department and Inspector General to fix the water contamination, eventually reporting that people's health was at risk. Then, the health department confirmed Ferrigan's findings and fined the city more than $1 million in November 2021, for violating the Florida Safe Drinking Water Act, according to her lawyers.
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With the most recent report this past January, Ferrigan continued to report her findings to the state, saying management was falsifying and concealing information, according to her attorneys. And due to Ferrigan's cooperation, her workplace grew to be extremely hostile and she faced harassment and retaliation by a few of her...
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