Ameren officials get skeptical reception
By Mike Monson
Tuesday September 9, 2008
CHAMPAIGN – More than 40 people jammed a community open house Monday at Booker T. Washington Elementary School, where they heard AmerenIP officials and consultants assure them that a former manufactured gas plant site at Fifth and Hill streets does not pose an immediate health threat – even though new soil boring tests show that contamination has spread beyond the former plant site and into the surrounding neighborhood.
Residents did not appear reassured by Ameren officials' promises that the contaminants, which include the carcinogen benzene, do not pose an immediate health threat to them.
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