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INDUSTRIAL RESOURCE GROUP
- The Calumet Region became a dumping ground for trash and waste early in Illinois’s history
- Wildlife has suffered from the creation of hardscapes and from the ruining of water sources
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- The river flows 13 miles long
- 90 percent of the flow consists of industrial and municipal effluent
- Number one of the 43 sites of the Great Lakes Area of concern - Transforamtion of the region took place in the early 1900s.
- Establishment of steel mills and oil refining companies by the banks of the Grand Calumet River
- In 2017, Gary Works, the largest steel mill, was one of the largest pollutors in Indiana released 25.2 million pounds of toxic chemicals.
- By the mid 20th century, contaminated sediments and toxic waste harmed the ecosystem which has the potential to danger human health through the emiisions in the air from toxic substances such as PCBs from the river.
