Posted on 04/12/2017 2:35:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A spill at a U.S. Steel plant in northern Indiana that sent wastewater containing a potentially carcinogenic chemical into a Lake Michigan tributary was apparently caused by a pipe failure, the steelmaker said Wednesday.
Tuesday’s spill of an unknown amount of wastewater led to the closure of two beach areas at the scenic Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and prompted a local water utility to stop drawing water from the lake out of “an abundance of caution,” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said.
U.S. Steel said a preliminary investigation shows an expansion joint failed Tuesday in a pipe at its Portage, Indiana, facility, allowing wastewater from an electroplating treatment process that contains hexavalent chromium to flow into the wrong wastewater treatment plant at the complex.
That wastewater eventually flowed into the Burns Waterway, a lake tributary, at a point about 100 yards from Lake Michigan, the EPA said. …
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Chrome 6? Not cool...
Good. It will kill the zebra mussels, Asian carp, and lampreys.
EPA leaked millions of gallons of mine waste water which contained tons of heavy metals in rivers in southern Colorado and nothing happened to them.
I thought that US Steel closed all of its steel plants in the northwest corner of Indiana decades ago.
And? Was that any way comparable to what you jackasses did last year?
Hex chrome is primarily an inhalation hazard.
It is so good to have informed Freepers add a bit of perspective to news items.
I smell democrat traitors in the EPA making trouble...
I think you’re going to see a lot more stories like this in relation to the budget cuts.
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