Ilena, Please Post For All: 10/7/98 Martinez Dow Chemical Co. has agreed to settle a $23 million lawsuit that accused the company of allowing contaminated water from its Pittsburgh plant to flow into the Sacramento River Delta. The suit was filed by BayKeeper, a San Francisco-based environmental group, which said Dow violated the state's Clean Water Act by allowing the pollution. The Delta provides drinking water for many residents of the eastern portion of Contra Costa County and elsewhere in the state Dow has owned the waterfront site about 40 miles east of San Francisco since 1938.The act, known as Proposition 65, permits damages to be awarded for each day a listed chemical enters drinking-water supplies. BAYKEEPERS SUIT LISTED 9,438 VIOLATIONS OF THE MEASURE IN A YEAR. DOW has poisoned our AIR DOW has poisoned our WATER DOW has poisoned our LAND DOW has poisoned our SOLDIERS DOW has poisoned our WOMEN with NORPLANT, DALCON SHIELD, and BREAST IMPLANTS DOW has poisoned our children DOW is poisoning the whole PLANET DOW is destroying our children and grandchildren future. In the end they will lose too because they will be destroying their children and grandchildren future!