Demolition began Monday afternoon on East Chicago's West Calumet Housing Complex, but the U.S.S. Lead Superfund site still leaves former residents concerned for their future.

Officials from the EPA and other federal agencies will join the city of East Chicago and its housing authority at the event.

Community leaders called on Indiana's Congressional representatives to oppose the cuts ahead of the approval deadline.

The public hearing was met with anger and skepticism from some residents who live on the site, as the response comes more than five years after the EPA identified the problem.

The complex was built on the site of a former lead smelter and two years ago the city and the East Chicago Housing Authority ordered that more than 1,000 residents be relocated.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management referred the Wheeler well field in Anderson to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for long-term cleanup funding.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finished removing lead-contaminated soil from 101 properties at the American Lead site in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood of Indianapolis.

The EPA said Monday it issued two unilateral administrative orders for residential areas slated for cleanups in East Chicago's USS Lead Superfund site.

The Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public meeting in January.

The former DuPont site is not a Superfund, but is contaminated with lead and arsenic, as well as zinc and cadmium.