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investigate the potentially toxic drinking water in puerto rico. ed lavandera has more on this. reporter: some puerto ricans are so desperate to find water here on the island that they start tapping into wells on what is described as a super fund site, an official designation issued by the environmental protection agency, superfund sites exist all over the country, considered some of the most toxic sites and ground areas in the united states. here in puerto rico alone, there is 18 of these designated s ed superfund sites. the focus is west of san juan, the capital here of this island, we were with an epa team as they were taking water samples. as i mentioned a few days ago, reports started emerging that people were lining up at some of the wells getting drinking water or water being used for cleaning or other purposes in their homes and in the toilet system and
security for comment on congressman benny thompson s request. we did not receive a reply just yet but here is cnn s ed lavandera. reporter: some puerto ricans are so celebrate to find water here on the island that they have started tapping into wells on what is described as a super fund site. an official designation issued by the environmental protection agency. super fund sites exist all over the country and considered some of the toxic sites and ground areas in the united states. here in puerto rico alone there is 18 of these designated superfund sites. the focus is just on one of them in the town of around the town of darado, puerto rico, west of san juan, the capital here of this island. we were with an epa team as they started to take samples and people were lining up at some of these wells getting drinking water or water being used to cleaning or other purposes in their hopes homes in the toilet
good to be with you. after a cnn exclusive report from puerto rico, a leading house democrat has asked the department of homeland security to investigate the water situation on the island. cnn reported that workers were distributing water taken from a federally designated hazardous waste site. yesterday, cnn reached out to the department of homeland security for comment on congressman benny thompson s request. we did not receive a reply. but according to the epa, consuming this water can have serious health effects including the increasing risk of cancer. here is cnn s ed lavandera. reporter: some puerto ricans are so celebrate to find water here on the island that they have started tapping into wells on what is described as a super fund site. an official designation issued by the environmental protection agency. super fund sites exist all over the country and considered some of the most toxic sites and ground areas in the united states. here in puerto rico alone, there is 18 of
arthel: regarding the shelters, do you know roughly how many there are, and if people don t know how to get to the shelters? or do the residents know where they are and welcome pets? a lot of people are staying at home because they don t want to leave their pets behind? glad you brought up that. the red cross shelters are not pet friendly at this point. that s something we re going to address in the upcoming months because that s a real concern for a lot of our residents and, of course, guests that visit beaufort county, so that s one thing. we have two set up within beaufort county in the higher ground areas. one in south carolina, and one in beaufort, south carolina, we hope they re going to be utilized to full capacity. arthel: yeah, and i understand, mr. brommage, captain brommage, you said that most of the residents there have been told