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Article: Uranium leak found underneath W. Chicago homes.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- August 31, 2001
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Byline: Jake Griffin Daily Herald Staff Writer
Cleanup crews discovered uranium leaking in a pipe under two Brown Street houses, marking the first discovery of that radioactive substance contaminating a West Chicago home.
The houses in the 200 block of west Brown Street have been placed on jacks so workers can remove radioactive soil beneath the structures. It is the first time homes had to be moved in the nearly decade-long cleanup of the shuttered Kerr-McGee chemical factory. The move has displaced one longtime resident; one house was unoccupied.
"The homes are closely adjacent to the old factory site, and the uranium was transmitted through ...