The Toxic Trail - Superfund Program

The landmark Superfund program is supposed to clean up the country’s toxic waste. But as one site in Silicon Valley shows, it’s leaving behind its own legacy of environmental problems.

theguardian.com - by Susanne Rust and Matt Drange, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and the Guardian US Interactive Team - March 17, 2014

Below some of the world’s most expensive real estate, in the heart of Silicon Valley, pipes and pumps suck thousands of gallons of contaminated water every hour from vast underground toxic pools.

Giant industrial filters trap droplets of dangerous chemicals at the surface, all in the hope of making the water drinkable again and protecting the workers of tech giants such as Google and Symantec from toxic vapors.

But that costly journey to the surface is only the start of a toxic trail with no clear end.

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