(LaPorte, IN) - Work is continuing on removing orange sludge from a brownfield site in La Porte.

City Engineer Nick Minich says the sludge from a by-product of paint when Allis Chalmers

made farm equipment there is one of the most contaminated areas of New Porte Landing.

But, he said a Chicago area firm doing the clean-up has a firm handle on the situation.

Minich says enough of the clean up will be done in time for 200 upscale condos beside Clear Lake

to start going up in the spring.

He says the work is being done to specifications set forth by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for housing development. He said the cost is about four million dollars paid for mostly by an insurance settlement with Allis Chalmers and other companies responsible for the contamination.