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Barrington Hills mayor ratchets up tiff with East Dundee over auto site

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Insurance Auto Auctions has received a notice of violation from Wheeling for pumping stormwater from its Wheeling site, shown here, to an adjacent property, a violation village officials described as minor.

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Barrington Hills Village President Robert Abboud called this body of water an "apparently contaminated pond," but a Wheeling official said it's actually a man-made detention basin designed to hold water from parking lots.

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Barrington Hills Village President Robert Abboud was so concerned about an auto auction business moving into neighboring East Dundee, he took matters into his own hands. Last week, he drove to the business' Wheeling locations, where he took photographs and videos of what he called serious pollution issues. But Wheeling calls the problems "relatively small."

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