Audio Slide Show: Arsenic in the well
E-mail this Slide ShowThirty-five years ago a well dug near Perham, Minn. penetrated an old disposal site full of arsenic. The well was dug at a family's construction business. The water tasted good, particulary on hot summer days. Tom Hammers worked that summer for his father's construction business. He now has nerve damage that affects his sense of pain. The resulting chronic illnesses from the exposure still reverberate through his family.