Groundwater testing begun near Oakwood

OAKWOOD – Bunge North America has hired a private company to drill wells at a fly ash dump site east of Oakwood, to monitor the groundwater for the presence of potential contaminants and to determine the flow of groundwater.

Deb Seidel, spokeswoman for Bunge North America in St. Louis, said the company drilled three separate groundwater-monitoring wells last week in the Grays Siding area just north of U.S. 150 and less than a mile west of the entrance to the Vermilion County Fairgrounds.

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