Burns Harbor News

Tom Easterly wouldn't comment about a pile of steelmaking waste at ArcelorMittal in Burns Harbor that bears his name and has been sitting exposed to the environment for more than two decades.

Records about waste at the former Bethlehem Steel and ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor are difficult to come by.

Nearly everyone who hoped to get answers about ArcelorMittal's proposed landfill -- including "Easterly's Pile" -- and what's going in it walked away disappointed Wednesday.

Four employees of Beta Steel Corporation were injured on Saturday in a slag eruption in the melt shop facility, located at the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor.

Two large barn fires burning simultaneously in Duneland on Friday forced local fire departments to scramble for help.

WHEREAS, the Burns Harbor Town Council has adopted a Subdivision Control Ordinance as Chapter 14 and a Zoning Ordinance codified as Chapter 15 of the Town Code of Burns Harbor, Indiana; and WHEREAS, the Burns Harbor Advisory Plan Commission has initiated certain amendments to the text portions of the Subdivision Control Ordinance and the Zoning ...

Roads were a topic of discussion Wednesday for both the Burns Harbor Redevelopment Commission and the Town Council.

Name and Address of Applicant: ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor, LLC Burns Harbor, Indiana 46304 Name and Location of Facility Applying for Permit: Deerfield Storage Facility Porter County ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor, LLC, has applied for a Restricted Waste Site Type I disposal facility permit for Deerfield Storage Facility located at 250 West US Highway ...

The Burns Harbor Town Council will hear a report when it meets Wednesday that INDOT likely will install a traffic signal at Indiana 149 and Tech Drive next year.

ArcelorMittal will host a meeting on Nov. 18 about its permit application to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for a proposed on-site solid waste landfill storage facility at the Burns Harbor facility.

O* the day after what would have been her father's 67th birthday, Christy Dujmovich-Jarka, a group of family members and Tony Dujmovich's former co-workers at ArcelorMittal's Burns Harbor plant went for a walk.

A joint committee of the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission and the Northwest Indiana Forum is working to get federal Economic Development Administration grants for the region Monday.

The Burns Harbor Board of Zoning Appeals voted 3-2 Tuesday approving a towing service and impound storage yard in the new downtown zoning district.

The Burns Harbor Board of Zoning Appeals will hear a request to vary the approved uses in the new downtown zoning district when the BZA meets Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the town hall, 1240 N. Boo Rd.

Levels are well below amounts considered hazardous but environmentalists still concerned about open dump Comments October 25, 2009 BY GITTE LAASBY, 648-2183 Mercury is contained in the 700,000 tons of blast furnace waste that ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor has stored directly on the ground less than 500 feet from Lake Michigan for the past two decades.

Because Porter County was behind in its property tax distributions this year, the county doled out nearly $127,000 to taxing units from interest the county earned on the money.

Reggie Hess set the table, figuratively speaking, when he introduced himself to several strangers last month at my roundtable discussion on health-care reform.

Town officials said it's a classic Catch 22. They want to help 19 families living in Rainbow Trailer Park, but if the Burns Harbor Town Council takes too firm a stance in trying to force park compliance it could mean the residents end up with no place to live.

The Indiana Department of Transportation wants to meet with Burns Harbor officials regarding possible installation of a traffic signal at Indiana 149 and Tech Drive south of U.S. 20.

In response to concerns raised by Post-Tribune readers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has tested the 700,000 tons of steelmaking waste that ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor has stored 500 feet from Lake Michigan for years.