Earlier, the San Joaquin River Settlement Agreement took much of the attention from the reservoir project. In a Water Commission meeting yesterday, the authority's Aaron Fukuda hoped that funds already invested in the project can instead go to benefitting the Central Valley in other meaningful ways. More lawsuits over chlorpyrifos in California Corteva Agriscience is facing a new round of lawsuits brought on by families claiming that exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos caused neurological damages. The first claim was filed in September in Kings County Superior Court and concerns a child born in 2003. The attorneys allege the plaintiff worked while pregnant in a packing house with produce previously treated with chlorpyrifos. The child's father worked in the fields applying the crop protection tool, known under the brand names Lorsban and Dursban. The attorneys argue the city of Huron's tap water was also contaminated with chlorpyrifos brought in through runoff into the California Aqueduct.