A northwest Harris County neighborhood has been flagged by the Environmental Protection Agency and put on high alert.A northwest Harris County neighborhood has been flagged by the Environmental Protection Agency and put on high alert.
According to the U.S. EPA, a dry cleaning company dumped toxic solvents out the back of its business from the 1980s all the way to 2002. That action created a dangerous underground plume that traveled westward across Jones Road, under Ace Hardware, and onto the neighborhood behind it. In 2003, the area was deemed a superfund - which is an abandoned toxic waste site that presents an imminent threat to public health.
"The talking of this has caused me to have less business because people are thinking, 'Oh my gosh, they're on groundwater.' And we're going to hurt the dog. We're going to hurt them. We're fine here. Everything is fine here," Tammy Kubicek, owner of Four Paws Dig It, said.
This is a serious problem not far from my home. People must realize contaminated water goes into the sewer and spreads to further contamination elsewhere. The EPA should be more attentive to these man made disasters not focused on electric car mandates.
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