Thumbsdown: Toxic government waste
by Editors
A $1 million study to determine how the state can lower the level of mercury in the Grand Calumet River is still not complete, at least three years after the state’s original deadline. According to an investigation by the Gary Post-Tribune, no one at the Indiana Department of Environmental Management is able to answer when work on the study started, what exactly has been done so far and how much taxpayer money has been spent in cash or staff time.
