Community groups sue to stop dumping of toxic waste on lakefront land designated for park in heavily polluted Southeast Side
The Army Corps of Engineers confined disposal facility on Lake Michigan at the south bank of the Calumet River on March 10, 2023. Local environmental groups are suing after the Corps reneged on an agreement to stop using the dump to disposed of contaminated sediment dredged from the river.
Sediment dug out of the river is contaminated with harmful metals including arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury, and dangerous polychlorinated biphenyls, commonly known as PCBs, that build up in fish and people.Groups suing to block the disposal of more dredged gunk are alarmed by government studies during the 1980s and 1990s that found worrisome concentrations of PCBs in fish and crayfish collected from the dump, which was designed to allow the lake to flow freely back and forth through it.
Past monitoring, later scaled back at the request of the Army Corps, revealed pollution concentrations exceeding federal and state regulations adopted after the dump was constructed with dikes intended to protect Lake Michigan from the dredged sediment, government documents show.
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