[CPEO-BIF] Erincraft Inc. and Weber Sign Service Inc. sites, Michigan City, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former 8th Street tenants sued for cleanup
Almost 20,000 tons of contaminated soil were removed

By JEFF MAYES 
La Porte County Herald-Argus (IN)
September 4, 2018

MICHIGAN CITY - There's a patch of land along 8th Street, just east of Michigan Boulevard and across Trail Creek from the casino, that seems out of place.

It's a grassy area, with cattails sprouting and not much else. It appears pristine, seemingly forgotten amid the residential and retail properties nearby.

But look closer and you'll spot a couple of monitoring wells out in the middle of the grass, a testament to its clouded history. The property was formerly the site of several businesses, which city officials claim polluted the land so badly, it required a long and costly cleanup funded by the city and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.heraldargus.com/news/former-th-street-tenants-sued-for-cleanup/article_cbd09d2f-2f90-54a6-bc9e-7efd771986bc.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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