The air inside was too polluted with gasoline fumes. His next door neighbor, Jo Tonjes, was getting the rest of her family's belongings out as well. That very day, a new report from an environmental testing company arrived in the mail. The company measures how much gasoline moves through the ground beneath her home week by week. There's still evidence of how serious the problem has been.
Tests show signs that pure gasoline is standing in one of the monitoring wells.
Since there's still chemicals, there's still petroleum up the hill they can't guarantee it's not going to migrate down here which is why we can't live here, which is why I don't know how anybody could live here. The gasoline leaked from underground storage tanks and went undetected for years. The amount of gasoline saturating the soil is anybody's guess. What I would like to say to you is welcome to the houses that poisoned our children. You know, this is what we have to live with.