The National Park Service has closed several portions of Indiana Dunes National Park after a chemical spill killed hundreds of fish in the area, according to a statement by Portage, Indiana, a nearby city
The spill occurred last week at the east branch of the Little Calumet River, about three miles upstream from Lake Michigan, Indiana Dunes National Park confirmed in a statement. The National Park Service has closed the Portage Lakefront, the Riverwalk beach area and waters out to 300 feet. The company responsible is ArcelorMittal, a steel and mining company headquartered in Luxembourg.
— Tim McNicholas August 16, 2019 "It's just horrible -- all these dead animals in here; all these dead fish. It's so sad," resident Angela Talmadge told WBBM."A lot of people use this waterway, you know, to go out to the lake." Barb Lusco, a harbormaster at the marina in Portage, expressed similar disgust."The odor is unbelievably bad because they decay pretty quickly," he told CNN affiliate WLS."So the odor is just awful. You can't stand it.
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