---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000863110-22-000035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARTNA"
cik: "0000863110"
company_name: "ARTESIAN RESOURCES CORP"
filed_at: "2022-07-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T09:23:45.577512+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Artesian Resources enters settlement for Superfund site; to receive ~$10M in past cost reimbursement

## Summary
- Consent Decree approved July 19, 2022; Trust to pay Artesian Water ~$10.0M for past capital and operating costs.
- $2.5M due by August 18, 2022; remaining $7.5M payable in three equal annual installments from court approval.
- Trust will also reimburse documented reasonable capital and operating costs incurred after July 1, 2021 for treating Site-related contaminants.
- Settlement resolves Artesian Water's claims related to groundwater contamination from the Delaware Sand & Gravel Landfill Superfund Site.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000863110-22-000035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARTNA
- cik: 0000863110
- company_name: ARTESIAN RESOURCES CORP
- filed_at: 2022-07-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/863110/000086311022000035/0000863110-22-000035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/863110/000086311022000035/8k.htm

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