wherever they find it, even if that place is a hazardous waste site. ed lavandara is is live in san juan with more. what s the reality? reporter: good morning, chris. well, all of this is going around a town called dorado. they are urging people to avoid a number of water wells in that town. it sits on a contaminated super fund site, one of the most toxic sites in the country. this goes to show you how desperate some people are to still find water. nearly a month after hurricane maria hit, residents around the town of dorado are tapping into this water faucet behind a chain linked fence with a sign that says danger, do not enter. despite hearing from a police officer, they come to fill containers of water. but few of them know this well sits in an area designated by the environmental protection
distribute the food to the people of the island. let s go do id lavandera. some island residents are so desperate, i understand, they re drinking potentially contaminated water from a toxic cleanup site? we spent some considerable amount of time over the last couple days investigating this, this is an area in a town called dorado, just west of san juan. epa officials spent the weekend gathering water samples from a half dozen water wells on what is known as a super fund site. these are sites designated by the epa, as some of the most contaminated pieces of land in the country. since the storm, we ve heard reports that there are a number of people who have been accessing some of these water wells for drinking water and water for their toilets and that sort of thing. epa officials gathering those water samples, they say the