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Home owner Brian Bracken

( Baltimore Sun photo by Kenneth K. Lam / November 16, 2012 )

Home owner Brian Bracken stands next to the 1500 gallon water tank that was installed in the back of his house to replace his contaminated well. Bracken said his well tested at a reading of 550 where the safe level for a single family house should be below 5. The EPA have hooked up several large water tanks in some homes where the contaminate are high.

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Tim Wheeler reports on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, he has focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, he's crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. He loves seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. He hopes to share some here.

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