EPA agents seize records on suburb's tainted water

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency agents executed a federal search warrant in south suburban Crestwood on Wednesday in response to reports that the village pumped tainted water to its residents for more than two decades.

Records were being combed for "any evidence of crimes that may have occurred," EPA Special Agent in Charge Randall Ashe said.

"There is no issue whatsoever with the water supply right now," Mayor Robert Stranczek said. "The village doesn't feel there was one prior to this, either."

Crestwood mixed water from a well contaminated with vinyl chloride with Lake Michigan water, until the Illinois EPA discovered its use of the well in 2007, according …