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Tainted Soil Uproots Lives in Chatham County, Ga.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2002

Savannah Morning News, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 20--Annette and Frank Turner learned just months ago that an underground gasoline tank at a nearby Georgia State Patrol post had leaked for years -- spreading fuel across an area about the length of two football fields.

The Turners always had thought they'd stay in their one-story home on Dean Forest Road off Interstate 16. Now they're wondering whether they should leave, just as their neighbors have, one by one.

"I don't want to move," said Annette Turner, 61. "It ain't much, but it's ours."

The Turners and their neighbors, who include retired paper mill workers, a dump truck driver, military men and moms, drink and bathe in water that comes from deep wells that...

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