Tom and Michelle Joliat's lovely home in Metamora, Michigan is situated high on a hill with a stunning view of the woods below. Normally, it's peaceful and idyllic here. Metamora Township is a rural area about 25 miles southeast of Flint. But in the distance, you can sometimes hear the faint drone of the U.S. EPA drilling yet another monitoring well. The wells are monitoring the movement of a plume of groundwater contaminated with 1,4 dioxane and other toxic chemicals. The plume comes from the Metamora Superfund site, where thousands of containers of illegally stored chemicals lie buried in the ground. Removing them is too risky; it would spread the contamination even faster. Can't drink the water, and worse to come? Michelle Joliat points to a big bottled water dispenser in the kitchen. Over the years, they've watched their neighbors get taken off well water, one by one, as the plume of 1,4 dioxane spreads. Now, the plume has reached their well. "We have to haul drinking water twice a
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