Amazon to pay $20M to settle lawsuit over Morrow County’s nitrate-contaminated water

Amazon pledged more than $20 million to address nitrate-contaminated water in Morrow County, as tensions rise over claims its data centers are worsening the problem.

MORROW COUNTY, Ore. — Amazon will pay more than $20.5 million to help homeowners in Morrow County gain better access to cleaner water, settling their part of a lawsuit filed by residents with contaminated well water.

Residents in eastern Oregon continue to be at risk of drinking polluted water drawn from private wells in the Lower Umatilla Basin — an issue KGW has been following for years.

“It will be set up as relief for homeowners who are drinking

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