AmerenIP report says no imminent danger at site
By Julie Wurth
Sunday January 27, 2008
Heather Coit
Aaron Ammons and the Fifth and Hill Neighborhood Rights Campaign meet at Douglass Branch Library in Champaign. The group has raised awareness about an old coal gas plant in the neighborhood, and Ameren promised to try to start a cleanup by 2009.
CHAMPAIGN – A voluminous new report from Ameren says the public's health is not immediately threatened by underground contamination at a former coal gasification plant in north Champaign.
But test results in the report show contaminants in the soil, including benzene, have spread beyond the AmerenIP site to the north, west and east – and possibly to the south. And at least one groundwater well just west of the property, and others on the site itself, are contaminated with benzene, a known carcinogen, and other byproducts of the manufacturing process.
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