EPA: Water samples from plant discharge show no health risks

PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says preliminary tests bespeak iron-contaminated wastewater that leaked from a northwestern Indiana alloy works into a Lake Michigan tributary presents nary hazard to nationalist health. The EPA said Wednesday that aboveground h2o samples were taken adjacent the outfall astatine the U.S. Steel Midwest works successful Portage and that national and authorities agencies are continuing to analyse the origin of the discharge. U.S. Steel idled the works astir 30 miles eastbound of Chicago arsenic a precaution aft it said a wastewater attraction installation experienced “an upset condition” that sent the rusty colored plume containing elevated pb levels into the Burns Waterway connected Sunday.