Residents not told until later their drinking water was polluted
Six months after state health officials declared their investigation of cancer rates in south suburban Crestwood was almost complete, they have yet to release the results.
The Illinois Department of Public Health, which earlier had failed to notify Crestwood residents their municipal water supply was contaminated [...]
In 2007, an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) test was performed which found that the well’s water was contaminated with twice the legal limit of vinyl chloride, a chemical linked with cancerous effects. According to the EPA, vinyl chloride is a known carcinogen that causes a rare cancer of the liver. The EPA [...]
Toxic chemicals have crept into the drinking water in a corner of rural Grundy County, stoking fears and raising suspicions about who is to blame.
Tests by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency on at least five private wells in a neighborhood that abuts a large landfill near Morris, an hour’s drive from Chicago, have shown dangerously [...]
CRYSTAL LAKE – Residents should be getting notices that an industrial solvent contamination has been found in the city’s water supply. However, officials said there was no reason for alarm.
“The water is safe,” Crystal Lake Public Works Director Eric Lecuyer said.
Trichloroethylene has been found in the city’s drinking water at levels below federal standards for [...]
According to an article published today in the New York Times, more than 20 percent of the nation’s water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last five years. The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) was originally passed by Congress in 1974 to protect public health by [...]
By: Nathan Polum
The DERATANY FIRM’s investigation into the water contamination continues. On Monday, September 14, 2009 state inspectors dug a monitoring well in Crestwood to help determine how the suburb’s drinking water was contaminated with toxic chemicals. The state inspectors placed equipment near Crestwood’s former community well. The equipment will help prove that cancer causing [...]
On September 11, 2009, the Deratany Firm, located in Chicago, Illinois, filed a proposed class action lawsuit on behalf of Plaintiffs who represent a class of the many residents, past residents, and employees of Crestwood, Illinois who were harmed by the contaminated water.
For more than two decades, the 11,000 or so residents in the community [...]
The Deratany Firm, located in Chicago, Illinois, filed a proposed class action lawsuit on behalf of Plaintiffs who represent a class of the many residents, past residents, and employees of Crestwood, Illinois who were harmed by the contaminated water.
For more than two decades, the 11,000 or so residents in the community of Crestwood unknowingly drank [...]
$23.3 Million
A Lake County jury awarded the parents of a brain injured child $23.3 million due to the negligence of the hospital employees responsible for monitoring his fetal heart rate prior to birth.
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