Flooding in Highland Park neighborhood linked to lead service line construction

Flooding in Highland Park neighborhood linked to lead service line construction

Residents of Highland Park say about 4 inches of water soaked their belongings after a water main leak Monday.

KCK neighborhood pushed for money to clean up lead-tainted soil. They got it

The Douglass-Sumner neighborhood in northeast Wyandotte County will receive nearly $4 million to clean up 54 vacant lots contaminated with lead and gas vapor. The grant funding from an Environmental Protection Agency program aimed at restoring parcels of land known as “brownfields” was among the 20 largest awards made nationwide through the program this year. The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, received the full $…