TOWN OF PINES, Ind. (AP) _ A spokesman for a northern Indiana power company says seven yards in the tiny Lake Michigan community of Town of Pines are contaminated with elevated levels of arsenic but do not pose an immediate health threat.
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. spokesman Nick Meyer says the source of the arsenic is a landfill holding fly ash, a byproduct of burning coal at power plants operated by the utility.
The Times reports NIPSCO representatives and officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency went door-to-door Tuesday informing residents of the town about 20 miles east of Gary of the elevated arsenic levels.
Meyer says the EPA and the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry have determined the arsenic does not pose an immediate health threat.
