DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The city of Delray Beach has voted to approve the settlement agreement with a wastewater inspector who faced retaliation from her peers.
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. Towards the end of her career with the city after she raised concerns about 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.
She tells CBS12 she feels the system failed the residents of Delray Beach and that she was targeted for trying to protect them.
"They trusted me," Ferrigan told CBS12 in April 2022. "I was on their property, I went in their homes, I mean this is a basic right."
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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