State EPA: McCullom Lake cancer rates normal, groundwater not contaminated (IL)
According to this report in the Chicago Tribune (IL):
No groundwater contamination has been detected in a small northeast McHenry County town, and people who live there are not more susceptible to brain cancer--despite legal claims to the contrary--state environmental and county health officials said this week.Read the full story here.
Stan Black, a spokesman for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, said Wednesday night that chemicals decades ago from an industrial area in Ringwood leached into groundwater and contaminated a shallow aquifer. But the contaminated underground plume is drifting east of the village of McCullom Lake and has not entered any village well or McCullom Lake's watershed.
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