The EPA cleaned up 178 residential properties and the former Carrie Gosch Elementary School during this years construction season. With that, there are 14 residential properties left to clean up, with a few to test before the end of the year.

Residents at East Chicago, Indianas toxic Superfund site got an opportunity Wednesday to voice their concerns on the Environmental Protection Agency communication about health risks.

The EPAs Office of Inspector General wants to know how residents and government agencies feel the EPA communicated health risks from Superfund sites.

The Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog wants to hear from East Chicago residents about how well the agency communicates information on the USS Lead Superfund site.

Residents questioned the EPA representatives about ongoing health hazards, groundwater contamination, and testing consistency across East Chicago's Superfund site.

Residents living in the USS Lead Superfund site in East Chicago will have opportunities to talk with the Environmental Protection Agency and learn more about its cleanup plans this month.

The EPA says partial replacement doesn't reduce lead contamination and can sometimes make it worse.

A priority designation makes more long-term federal funding for cleanup available. Indiana has 39 active sites on the Superfund NPL list.

EPA Deputy Assistant Administrators Barry Breen and Steven Cook would handle cases where Peter Wright might have a conflict of interest.

The EPA put the Spencer site on its priority list last week, but the Indiana Department of Environmental Management says the chemical in the water is at safe levels.