[CPEO-BIF] DuSable Park, Chicago, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report: DuSable Park Site Near Navy Pier Nearly Clear Of Radioactive  
Soil

CBS Chicago
August 23, 2012

CHICAGO (CBS) - A published report says the long-planned DuSable Park  
could soon be ready for development along the lake just south of Navy  
Pier.

Plans go back some 25 years for a park at right on the lake between  
Ogden Slip and the Chicago River’s Main Branch. But until now,  
contamination from radioactive thorium has prevented those plans from  
advancing.

But Chicago Park District engineer Daniel Cooper now tells the  
Chicago Architecture Blog that remediation work at the site to  
eradicate the thorium is “just about complete.” The U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency tells the blog that the Park District  
should soon be sending bags of contaminated soil, which will be  
disposed of at a toxic Superfund site.

...

For the entire story, see
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/23/report-dusable-park-site-near- 
navy-pier-nearly-clear-of-radioactive-soil/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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