A team of investigators working with the famous environmental activist Erin Brockovich were in Genesee County Saturday looking into the train derailment from the 1970s, which they say could have caused tourette-like symptoms in more than a dozen girls from Le Roy. YNN's Ryan Whalen has more from one of the investigators.

Environmental investigator Bob Bowcock says his boss, environmental activist Erin Brockovich, was first contacted in December after a number of students in Le Roy began displaying neurological symptoms. He says it became an urgent matter for the famous environmental activist as community members became more frustrated by a lack of answers.

"She actually wanted me here on Wednesday, this was the earliest I could get here. It's the first of many visits until we figure this thing out," said Bob Bowcock, environmental investigator.

On Saturday, Bowcock was at the site of 1970s train derailment in Le Roy , which is a site Brockovich says could be a cause for concern. Bowcock says barrels of material, breached, rusted and leaking were found on the site where the carcinogen TCE spilled more than forty years ago.

"If you're completed with the job, you can clean up the mess and move on and what they've done here is they've pretty much taken a superfund site, clean-up site and turned it into a superfund clean-up site," said Bowcock.

Earlier Saturday, Bowcock and a team spent their morning at Le Roy High School just a few miles from the site of the spill. There, they were met by police officers.

"We went ahead and toured the facility. We were escorted. We were not allowed to collect any samples or really touch anything, but I was able to achieve what I came out to achieve, which was to better understand the site," said Bowcock.

The Le Roy Central School District's superintendent released a new statement Friday. In it she urged media and others to be mindful of speculation and accusations without facts and said the district needs to ensure it is "receiving sound advice from highly qualified professionals, void of self interest."

Bowcock says there's a strong possibility that carcinogens in the ground aren't the cause of the Le Roy students' illnesses, but it wouldn't mean there's not a problem.

"The people of Le Roy need to know they have the largest TCE plume in the eastern United States under their community and the government has given them lip service for 40 years, telling them we've cleaned it up. We've cleaned it up. We've looked at this. We've done that, and frankly, I'm here to tell you they haven't done a darn thing," said Bowcock.

The rest of the statement from the Le Roy School District is available on the Le Roy School District's website.