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East Chicago wants to demolish housing on contaminated site

Posted July 30, 2016 7:00 am

The Associated Press

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) - The East Chicago Housing Authority wants to demolish a housing complex where soil is contaminated with lead.

The (Munster) Times reported (http://bit.ly/2ao9j7w ) Saturday that the housing authority submitted a "demolition or disposition" application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and that a public hearing has been scheduled for the coming week.

The city advised more than 1,000 residents this week that they should temporarily relocate after the Environmental Protection Agency informed the city that the ground within the public housing complex had high levels of arsenic and lead.

The neighborhood used to be home to the USS Lead facility. It's now part of a 79-acre U.S. EPA Superfund site.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says it can provide residents with "tenant protection vouchers."

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Information from: The Times, http://www.thetimesonline.com

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