SPRING VALLEY — Tempers once again flared at the Spring Valley City Council meeting on Monday when discussion turned to the Bassick property.

A resident began asking questions about the property pertaining specifically to possible contaminants in the soil. The site has a "No Further Remediation" letter from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency as long as a 40-by-70-foot section of the land is capped. Mayor Cliff Banks reiterated his worries about the property.

“They never sold me on the idea that it was clean,” Banks said.