Groundwater has high levels of cadmium, chromium and lead. Men who worked in the factories tell tales of dangerous chemicals spilling onto the ground by accident or design. We weren't that cautious. The barrel was gone, and it was just white gunk. We knew the stuff in those barrels was dangerous.
Wood has cancer, too.
This was the bad area here where all of the hazardous stuff was used. I can't believe anybody would build a school here. In retrospect, some of the people who built the school agree. Now retired and living in Illinois, he is watching in horror as student after student gets cancer. That site was the least desirable as far as I was concerned, but because the Remington Rand people had given us the land, the board voted to go ahead and take it.