When friends visit Michelle Morrell's back yard, they inevitably ask about the vertical white pipe that runs along the rear wall of her house, from her basement to the roof.
Then Morrell has to repeat the story: her home may or may not sit above groundwater contaminated by the old Nyanza dye company up the road.
As a precaution, federal officials installed equipment in her basement to divert potentially harmful chemical vapors from her house.
"People start going, 'Where do you live?"' Morrell said.
The Pleasant Street home she owns with her husband, Edward, is one of 41 Ashland buildings where contractors for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency spent the summer installing vapor mitigation systems.
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