The Butler Area School District has agreed to pay up to a $600 settlement to each of the 215 plaintiffs in class-action suit against the district for allowing Summit Elementary School students to drink water contaminated with lead and copper in 2016 and 2017.

The lawsuit filed was in August 2018 by Kristy Kromer, Melissa Kline, Tanya Cloutier and Donna Hope on behalf of their children, who were students at the school, and later became a class-action suit. It was settled Tuesday, July 18, at a hearing before Common Pleas Court President Judge S. Michael Yeager.

The plaintiffs could not be reached for comment, but district superintendent Brian White said the district is glad the matter has been settled.