An Indiana steelmaker has agreed to pay $3 million and donate 127 acres to Indiana Dunes National Park after it caused a chemical spill leading into Burns Waterway that killed 3,000 fish in 2019.
Mark Mason, left, and Ben Macuga, biology researchers from the Indiana University Northwest take a water samples from Burns Ditch at the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk for testing, the beach is closed due to chemical spill to Lake Michigan in Porter on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2019. The National Park Service closed the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk beach areas and waters at Indiana Dunes National Park.
The proposed consent decree would have to be approved by a federal judge in the U.S. District Court in Hammond. At the time, the Burns Harbor steel mill was owned by ArcelorMittal, which sold the majority of its American assets to Cleveland Cliffs in 2020.“This is a big victory for protecting Lake Michigan, safe clean water, and Northwest Indiana communities,” Chicago-based Environmental Law & Policy Center Executive Director Howard Learner said in a release.
Local beaches closed for days as a precaution and Indiana American Water temporarily idled its Ogden Dunes water treatment plant.
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