City Utilities Director Greg Crowley says the elevated levels are likely related to EPA clean up activities in the Calumet neighborhood.

Mayor Anthony Copeland sent letters to Gov. Mike Pence and Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb requesting additional resources for the lead contaminated Calumet neighborhood.

The city is already grappling with lead in the soil around homes inside its EPA Superfund, but the EPA says that isn't the source of the lead in the tap water.

A complaint has been settled by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to give current and former East Chicago residents more time, money to relocate.

The EPA will begin removing lead contaminated soil from 13 yards this fall.

The deadline is looming for families in a lead-contaminated public housing complex to find new homes, but they don't have many affordable options.

Soil samples at East Chicago's Carrie Gosch Elementary School tested at dangerous lead levels. So the decision was made to move the hundreds of students to a former middle school located across town.

Hundreds of families living in the West Calumet neighborhood have been told to find new homes by November.

Residents of the West Calumet Housing Complex are suing local officials as well as the private companies responsible for cleaning the neighborhood's lead polluted soil.

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will begin removing lead-tainted soil later this month from as many as 100 homes around the site of an old industrial smelter in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood.