January 29, 2008 - When Beth Agle and her family first visited the vacant, 1-acre site of their future home on S. Morrish Road in Gaines Township, they thought it was everything they had been searching for.
But unknown to them, a quarter-mile away was the site of the former Berlin & Farro dump, once considered one of the nation's worst toxic waste sites.
In 2000, Agle, her husband and two daughters moved into the home. Three years later, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer that quickly spread to her bladder, colon and abdominal wall. Now she has learned that two members of the family that purchased her home also have been diagnosed with cancer. And they learned of their illnesses about three years after moving in, just as she did.
And like Ron Voelker and his daughter, Shyra, she believes well water at the home could be the cause.
"I wasn't aware of the site being there," said Agle, 44, who now lives in Flint Township and said she still did not know about it when the house was sold. "We drank out of the well all the time and we didn't think anything of it. We did everything, and now it makes me wonder."
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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