Ameren, residents hold dueling open houses about cleanup
By Tim Mitchell
Tuesday June 9, 2009
Robert K. O'Daniell
Allison Jones, champaign and CCHCC, sets up a display at the neighborhood open house. Both Ameren and the 5th and Hill neighborhood residents held open houses about the pollution cleanup in Champaign on Monday afternoon.
CHAMPAIGN – M.D. Pelmore of Champaign fears his frequent headaches and congestion are a result of contamination from a nearby former manufactured-gas plant site.
"I've lived in this neighborhood for 29 years, and, when it rains, I get a strange, terrible smell that comes out of the ground," said Pelmore, 72. "Other people in the neighborhood are getting the same headaches and congestion I've been experiencing."
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