East Chicago Common Council member Terence Hill, who represents the district that includes the USS Lead Superfund site, looks forward to the new development at the former housing complex.
“I think it will be a plus for the community,” he said. “It’s going be a state-of-the-art warehouse. No smokestacks. It’s not going to contaminate us.”
Crews from the Environmental Restoration excavate high levels of arsenic contaminated soil from the back yard of East Chicago homeowner Mary Poe, at far right, as employees from the EPA oversee the project, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. Poe and neighbor Raejean Zipko, in center, were looking on from a neighbor's gangway. Poe's house is at left. Raeijean's home was on another block.
The entire neighborhood was declared an EPA Superfund site — the designation for the most heavily polluted areas in the country — in 2009, after which the EPA developed a plan to clean up the contaminated soils. But soil cleanup for residential development in that area would have required removing soil to four feet deep and replacing it with clean soil. Cleanup for commercial and industrial development requires less soil removal.Advertisement
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