This is the most contaminated site in the lake's basin.
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — A sea wall along a northwestern Indiana canal is collapsing, threatening to allow tainted soil from an abandoned oil refinery to spill into the waterway linked to Lake Michigan.
Since January, the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal's World War II-era steel barrier has bowed nearly 3 feet, creating what local, state and federal officials call a potential environmental crisis.
"We regard this as an emergency situation," Bill White, project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, told the city's Waterway Management District Board on Wednesday.
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Posted by Dave at February 26, 2005 11:55 AM