Bottled drinking water is needed to provide an alternative to the contaminated tap water for the residents of the Calumet neighbourhood of East Chicago, Indiana a Superfund site.
Residents of the Calumet neighbourhood of East Chicago live in an environment polluted with elevated lead and arsenic in the soil around their homes, in some cases, exceeding the EPA allowable limits. The west Calumet part of the neighbourhood was the former site of USS Lead. The area was listed on the National Priorities List of the worst contaminated sites in the country in 2009 and was declared a Superfund site by the U.S. EPA.  Under a consent decree entered between the responsible parties and the EPA funds have been secured to remediate/excavate the contaminated soil.