The Environmental Protection Agency says replacing only some of the lead pipes leading to a home doesn't reduce lead contamination in drinking water and can even make it worse when the old pipes are disturbed.

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.

The Indiana State Department of Health plans to analyze the blood samples being collected by the Delaware County Health Department from children of workers at a Muncie battery-recycling plant.

The city released a statement Thursday that placed blame on the federal government.

About 50 people attended Wednesday's public hearing on the plan to cleanup land in and around an East Chicago industrial site.

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 lawsuit alleges the companies caused property loss, and the residents seek financial damages due to emotional distress.

The NAACP hopes to replicate the program on a national scale, taking it to Florida, Colorado and Michigan next.