And what’s horrible is that the government knew about it, and chose not to inform the residents about the toxic water.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment informed residents about the water that was going in their bodies only after six years.
The state also did not inform residents that the water in their drinking wells could be contaminated with the dry cleaning chemical.
“We didn’t find out for 7 years,” said Joe Hufman, after discovering his well was contaminated by a Haysville dry cleaner.
“Haysville knew it.
The state knew about it but didn’t notify the residents living in over 200 homes that they had been consuming contaminated water for four years.
To defend this misconduct, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said it did not worry about contaminated water in Haysville because they apparently thought the groundwater was traveling southwest, away from private wells.
That clearly wasn’t the case.
“Instead, they all kept quiet.
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