The Ugly Side, 7 Years On.

This should have never happened .Laws need to be changed to protect the public.

Chemicals found on our properties.

Benzo(a)pyrene-Benzene*Toluene *Ethyl benzene
Xylenes*Naphthalene*Acenaphthylene*Acenaphthene
Fluorene*Phenanthrene*Anthracene Fluoranthene
pyrene-Benzo(a)anthracene*Chrysene*

And others.

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The machine

pump

This machine draws the oil with underground pipes that run across our back alley and on to our properties.
This thing has a chimney that blows out smoke, it leaves a fine yellow dust that stains the bottom of shoes, we have wiped the grass with white rags . The grass was covered in an orange and yellow powder that sprays out over our homes and we breath it in..

Just feet away from the back of our property.
Bell fuels had huge Leaking underground storage tanks (Lust).

The chimney inside red circle, when contaminates are drawn into this wooden hut, smoke with a orangey/yellow fine dust are blown out, Landing all over our properties.

How far from the House was it?

Here is a view from our back window. See the chimney in red.
During the summer months the acrid smell of fuel oil was so overpowering it would cause us to have dizziness/headaches/vomiting. Visitors to our homes complained of headaches, feeling sick and would not stay for long.

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Then and Just Before we had to leave

Our first home, The house meant the world to us , We felt so fortunate, a new beginning.

then

Lost to the Banks: We tried to hang on as long as we could. Year after year hoping for justice.

How long will we all be held hostage with the stigma and constant worry about our future, the long term affects of living in a contaminated home for over 10 years. Not to mention having to live in another Country while waiting for the courts to decide our future.
Why put us through all of this? We should have been evacuated from the start, after all we never asked for any of it. and to ad insult to injury, Now to be labeled debtors hiding out in another country for no fault of our own.
Who is responsible, and why after all this time, then to lose everything because of someone else's negligence, no empathy and compassion? from those who did this to us.
Strangers are planning our future for us with no regard for families lives torn apart..
How long will the politicians who talk about our rights and the environment, ignore it and do nothing?
We live in hope that justice will prevail and help put things right.
After all, it comes down to doing the right thing!

now .

Our Home as we left it, It became for us a living hell, a prison. The house carried a stigma. We could not sell it, (Whom would purchase a contaminated house). We could not rent it. All we had left was hope, that the state of Illinois, The IEPA (The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency),would stop the madness. isn't it time the city and state politicians implemented safeguards, so that future families will never have to endure this kind of pain and suffering ever again?

One of the many monitoring wells in and
around our House. properties.

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Just feet away from the back of our property.Bell fuels had huge Leaking underground storage tanks (Lust).

The chimney inside red circle, when contaminates are drawn into this wooden hut, smoke with a orangey/yellow fine dust are blown out, Landing all over our properties.

Here is a view from our back window. See the chimney in red.During the summer months the acrid smell of fuel oil was so overpowering it would cause us to have dizziness/headaches/vomiting. Visitors to our homes complained of headaches, feeling sick and would not stay for long.

Just feet away from the back of our property.
Bell fuels had huge Leaking underground storage tanks (Lust).

Here is a view from our back window. See the chimney in red.
During the summer months the acrid smell of fuel oil was so overpowering it would cause us to have dizziness/headaches/vomiting. Visitors to our homes complained of headaches, feeling sick and would not stay for long.