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The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency maintains that chemicals from an old factory near the town of McCullom Lake did not find their way into the groundwater that the town uses. 
 
Three town residents contracted a rare form of brain cancer and are suing Modine Manufacturing and Rohm and Haas Chemicals LLC, who made sealants and adhesives in the area.  
 
The county epidemiologist says the number of cancers is not out of the ordinary, but the litigants maintain that three neighbours getting the rare disease within months of each other could not be due to chance. 
 

State EPA finds no groundwater-cancer tie

Chicago Tribune - 6/2/2006 6:19 AM

No groundwater contamination has been detected in a small northeast McHenry County town, and people who live there are not more susceptible to brain cancer--despite legal claims to the contrary--state environmental and county health officials said this week.
 
Stan Black, a spokesman for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, said Wednesday night that chemicals decades ago from an industrial area in Ringwood leached into groundwater and contaminated a shallow aquifer. But the contaminated underground plume is drifting east of the village of McCullom Lake and has not entered any village well or McCullom Lake's watershed
 
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