ST. CHARLES — More than 100 people packed a meeting room Thursday night to hear federal officials talk about ongoing efforts to clean up groundwater contamination that haven't gone as planned — and to offer their own opinions and ask questions.

"We need to pressure them to do something'' further or it won't be cleaned up for another 20 years, Kara Elms, a leader in the St. Charles Clean Water Advocates group, told the crowd.

Meghan Wilkison, 43, who also attended, put it this way: "Let's not cover up a burn with a tattoo."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been working for decades to clean up the Superfund site, south of Highway 370, close to a well field where the city of St. Charles gets the majority of its drinking water.

But an EPA report released earlier this week concl

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