28 water wells contaminated with dioxin in east Harris County

When you live pretty close to a Superfund site on the San Jacinto River, it is not the kind of letter you want delivered to your mail box - Harris County Health authorities warning that initial tests reveal unsafe levels of cancer causing Dioxin in your well water.

Dioxin found in east Harris County water wells

With 80,000 truckloads of Dioxin waste buried on the banks and beneath the waters of the San Jacinto River, folks in nearby Highlands and Baytown fear leakage from the Superfund site presents a clear and present danger to their health.