Soil, water testing scheduled near Champaign site

CHAMPAIGN – Testing for soil and groundwater contamination is expected to begin later this month in the north Champaign neighborhood surrounding a former manufactured coal-gas plant owned by AmerenIP.

Testing could begin as soon as March 31, and will include 38 new soil borings, including 29 off-site, and drilling 10 new monitoring wells, nine of them off-site, according to Brian Martin, a consulting environmental scientist for Ameren.

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