The ooze in the water just north of the U.S. Steel Plant in Portage is still an unkown, three says after it first appeared in the water.

“I certainly don’t want to make this go on forever,” said Portage Mayor Sue Lynch, after two days worth of meetings with different agency heads on the subject. “I would like to have some answers and I would like to think of all the agencies that have been testing we’d start to get some kind of answer.”

The orange ooze first appeared Sunday evening around 5 p.m.

“We haven’t learned what was in that spill. It was bright orange so it could be iron, It could be anything. We aren’t chemists and we don’t know.”

Lynch said the water has been tested by everyone from the EPA to National Parks, but no one has gotten back to the city with answers. She hopes for some results by Wednesday.

She said so far, there hasn’t been anything dead in the water.

“We have not seen any dead fish. We have not seen any dead birds. We have seen none of that.”