Longueuil has reportedly agreed to a fine and settled a class action lawsuit over the water crisis last year when nearly 300,000 people went days without safe drinking water, TVA Nouvelles reports.
Residents, however, will reportedly receieve no compensation for days without safe drinking water, according to the news outlet. The money will instead be invested in the waterworks facilities.
It also remains unclear how much the city is paying out. The original lawsuit claimed $100 each for the 288,100 residents of the municipality.
The city has also agreed to pay a $150,000 fine to the Ministry of Environment of Quebec, to avoid a potentially costly legal battle with the province.
Longueuil is now devoting its energy into a $8 million civil suit against water system contractors, petrolium equipment specialists and consultants.
The suit accuses them of negligence over the 28,000-litre spill of diesel, which leaked from a water treatment plant into the St. Lawrence River in early January 2015.
Some of it seeped into the city drinking supply by way of a cracked sewer line. Residents were under a no-drinking advisory for over two days.