The EPA has maintained it can't move forward with cleanup until it gets more information, but the mayor says remediation needs to be to a residential standard.

Fifty-six families still live in the lead-tainted public housing complex, with 19 waiting to appeal their temporary relocation assignments.

Grievance hearings will take place on Monday and Tuesday, but the deadline has taken a toll, forcing some residents to settle for less-than-ideal circumstances.

Federal officials defended the city's decision to empty West Calumet beginning Friday, March 31, despite objections from remaining residents and their lawyers.

Families who remain in lead-contaminated public housing on April 1 could be moved somewhere temporary while they keep looking for permanent housing.

The West Calumet Housing Complex will be torn down soon. But how the soil is remediated will determine the future of the lead and arsenic-contaminated site.

The order is "focused on helping to relocate nearly 100 residents who remain" at West Calumet Housing Complex, which is slated to be torn down in the spring.

The City of East Chicago informed residents last week that the Pence administration denied the request for an emergency declaration.

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

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