Joliet denied OK to dump more radium (Chicago Tribune)

4 March 2010, 9:54 am

The Illinois EPA has denied a request from Joliet to more than double the concentration of cancer-causing radium it is allowed to dump onto farmland in the south suburbs. Radium is a naturally occurring radioactive element abundant in deep-water wells in northern Illinois and throughout the Midwest. Cities such as Joliet that rely on these deep wells spend millions of dollars each year to remove ...... Read More »

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