If you look at the history of EXTREMELY rare genetic disorders and cancers in this community over the last 50 years, you would be shocked. Not sure where this all ends, but any environmental attorney worth their salt would start with Owens Brockway that has been operating in that community for over 40 years.
The pictures of the water look absolutely disgusting! Sounds like alot of shenanigans happening in this situation, and is similar to others that have received notoriety in the news.
Below is a dossier which lays out exactly what is going on in Madison County.
✅ We have lab-confirmed contamination
✅ Tons of tort claims already being filed across the all cities and the county
✅ Alleged Financial fraud evidence tied to road projects and missing funds
✅ And even alleged documentation of an IDEM cover-up
This dossier shows that what’s happening here isn’t just discolored water it’s a coordinated failure of government accountability with direct harm to citizens.
Yes tons of people all over the county and it showed E Coli, Lead, low Chlorine. Tons of video evidence and lab results. They say water is fine drink up.
My mom contracted an incurable disease at the age of 6 from groundwater contamination in 1960s in Anderson, Madison County, Indiana. I was forced to watch my mom and family suffer my entire life due to the damages the contaminated water caused. It was common knowledge in my family that the groundwater caused my mom's health problems. At the beginning of the Pandemic my mom was placed on the liver transplant list. She decided not to proceed with the surgery because it would lower her quality of life.
My mother Deborah Bilbrey Romine died 11/1/2024.
During the same time frame October-November 2024, the City of Anderson's Water Department Director Neal McKee said our finished water had tested high in PFAS for several years. I didn't put it together till Bri and I were doing all the research about Water Contamination. Once she found the Superfund Site Information that was the moment I realized the severity of the Water situation in Anderson, Indiana. We mapped the sites.
It was Feb-March 2025 when I learned that the Wheeler Ave Water Plant had been added to the Superfund Site in 2018. Then I saw the EPA Documents that showed that our water had been testing high in PFAS since the 80s. AND my mom just happened to drink the water at her home on the website that just happened to be located next to Superfund Site Prime Battery and a mile from ALAC. Plus, her tap came from the Wheeler Ave Water Plant.
April 2025, we had our EPA Meeting that they cancelled on us.
(Bri/Me & my husband Aaron/Callahan/Crumes/Etchison)
May 2025, The EPA realized they had to respond to all of us and had their own Town Hall. The Herald Bulletin wrote that we challenged them.
Now I know what I know, and I also figured out that the City of Anderson Government Officials allowed Homeless Encampments to sit on top of the NPL Superfund Site Pre-Pandemic. I took a group of volunteers back in the location in October 2023. The area was filled with water bottles full of pee, and misc. trash debris. We had to get the city involved and it cost taxpayers $100,000 to clean up. Fastforward and it took a handful of us to challenge the EPA for some answers to get any type of response.
Here we are, and my mom is also dead. I can't help but think the water helped kill my mom. AND by acquiesce City and County Officials have known the water is contaminated. Some of them have known since the 1960s, but local officials want to play coy. The kicker to all the funds we just got is that the infrastructure will still be running through the contaminated Wheeler Water Plant on the NPL Site until the NEW Water Plant is built.
The State officials recommended to put money into what we got and not build a new facility. Our water technically isn't getting fixed by City Officials, but it's great word play. People see all the money, and they think it's getting fixed. The reality is it's not getting fixed.
Then to top it off it will be another 2-4 years before the EPA makes a determination into who contaminated the water. Even though it was just as much the City of Anderson as it is the Businesses on the list of 100+ potential sources sent by way of email from Indiana House District 36 Kyle Pierce who has since recanted his email. We will be lucky if the EPA doesn't stall again or start back over from scratch as they throw out the other reports that cost us a lot of money when they were created. Back to square 0, and the people are getting screwed and not the elected officials or whoever is getting paid from the contracts.
Thank You!
11th Generation American Melungeon & Disgruntled Combat Veteran
The first home I owned was in this town. That was approximately 1995-2000. At some point we were forced to have a new main waterline installed to reconnect us from the curb to the house. It was at our cost individually to hire the contractor to dig up our yards and replace clay tile lines installed by the cheapskate builder (National Homes) during approximately 1976-1977. Per the order, the city supplied the replacement plumbing parts during late 1990’s. I have no idea how widespread the use of clay waterlines were allowed in Lapel, IN over the years, but they claimed to have determined that the clay had begun to breakdown and allow sewage (and who knows what else) to seep into the drinking water thus IDEM required the upgrade. So it failed within just 20 -25 years?! I lived on the east side of Lapel, and the Owens-Corning (Brockway) glass factory was on the other side of the small town. I did have breast cancer 15-17 years after I left there, but I would be surprised if factory runoff would be the explanation for my cancer.
Did anyone get that water tested to see what all was in it, we know for fact that all across America they put fluoride in the water and it is deadly. There's got to be more than just fluoride in that water.
Bri, If you haven’t already, please read my response where I explain what happened during my five years as a Lapel homeowner. I have a feeling that there could be other instances of failed clay tile waterlines that are allowing sewage and ground contamination into the “clean” water supply. If you think anything about my experience could be helpful to you, please let me know. I lived in The Meadows approximately 1995-2000.
Thank you, no right now they don’t believe there is an issue. They tell us “drink the water and you don’t have to boil it “ even if it looks like the pictures in the article. So they aren’t providing anything to get us by.. we just buy loads of bottled water for cooking and have a filter for our tub for bathing
Do I understand you correctly that "because all those chemicals/poisons are within legal limits" , that's why the town "leaders" say there's no issue, despite the color??
(Do they acknowledge the reports/tests done by the Health Department?)
Are they continuing to bill you all for "water" services in spite of these red flags?
And to place the burden of obtaining your own water!!!! Are we living in some 3rd world country? I'm thinking we do!!
SURE!! WE ALL LOVE GROSS COLORED WATER!! CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE A COOL DRINK OF THAT! WASH MY FACE, ETC ...... Sheeesh
https://www.multipure.com/pcrawford. MultiPure gave free water to Flint Michigan and Puerto Rico water disasters at the Boys and Girls Clubs -best filtration available. 5% off the best water filter made with COUPON: 110030
I love in Anderson and I test my water and it is not safe. We drink bottle water and use bottle water for cooking.
Same here.
If you look at the history of EXTREMELY rare genetic disorders and cancers in this community over the last 50 years, you would be shocked. Not sure where this all ends, but any environmental attorney worth their salt would start with Owens Brockway that has been operating in that community for over 40 years.
Way more than 40 years.
When you try to speak about Owens brockway some die hard lapel residents defend it to the max. It’s unbelievable.
The pictures of the water look absolutely disgusting! Sounds like alot of shenanigans happening in this situation, and is similar to others that have received notoriety in the news.
WHO in hell is running some of these towns?
There is a lot more evidence as well..
Below is a dossier which lays out exactly what is going on in Madison County.
✅ We have lab-confirmed contamination
✅ Tons of tort claims already being filed across the all cities and the county
✅ Alleged Financial fraud evidence tied to road projects and missing funds
✅ And even alleged documentation of an IDEM cover-up
This dossier shows that what’s happening here isn’t just discolored water it’s a coordinated failure of government accountability with direct harm to citizens.
🔗 Full Dossier – Madison County Water & Fraud Evidence https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ihq9B-ulfg7QrVoY7YzmyIdmD-HAs8Mk?usp=drive_link
James you've been very busy. That's a lot of information. Did they even respond back to you?
Yes tons of people all over the county and it showed E Coli, Lead, low Chlorine. Tons of video evidence and lab results. They say water is fine drink up.
These people need hung by the end of a noose. I hope you all got some leadway in getting some clean drinking water.
My mom contracted an incurable disease at the age of 6 from groundwater contamination in 1960s in Anderson, Madison County, Indiana. I was forced to watch my mom and family suffer my entire life due to the damages the contaminated water caused. It was common knowledge in my family that the groundwater caused my mom's health problems. At the beginning of the Pandemic my mom was placed on the liver transplant list. She decided not to proceed with the surgery because it would lower her quality of life.
My mother Deborah Bilbrey Romine died 11/1/2024.
During the same time frame October-November 2024, the City of Anderson's Water Department Director Neal McKee said our finished water had tested high in PFAS for several years. I didn't put it together till Bri and I were doing all the research about Water Contamination. Once she found the Superfund Site Information that was the moment I realized the severity of the Water situation in Anderson, Indiana. We mapped the sites.
It was Feb-March 2025 when I learned that the Wheeler Ave Water Plant had been added to the Superfund Site in 2018. Then I saw the EPA Documents that showed that our water had been testing high in PFAS since the 80s. AND my mom just happened to drink the water at her home on the website that just happened to be located next to Superfund Site Prime Battery and a mile from ALAC. Plus, her tap came from the Wheeler Ave Water Plant.
April 2025, we had our EPA Meeting that they cancelled on us.
(Bri/Me & my husband Aaron/Callahan/Crumes/Etchison)
May 2025, The EPA realized they had to respond to all of us and had their own Town Hall. The Herald Bulletin wrote that we challenged them.
Now I know what I know, and I also figured out that the City of Anderson Government Officials allowed Homeless Encampments to sit on top of the NPL Superfund Site Pre-Pandemic. I took a group of volunteers back in the location in October 2023. The area was filled with water bottles full of pee, and misc. trash debris. We had to get the city involved and it cost taxpayers $100,000 to clean up. Fastforward and it took a handful of us to challenge the EPA for some answers to get any type of response.
Here we are, and my mom is also dead. I can't help but think the water helped kill my mom. AND by acquiesce City and County Officials have known the water is contaminated. Some of them have known since the 1960s, but local officials want to play coy. The kicker to all the funds we just got is that the infrastructure will still be running through the contaminated Wheeler Water Plant on the NPL Site until the NEW Water Plant is built.
The State officials recommended to put money into what we got and not build a new facility. Our water technically isn't getting fixed by City Officials, but it's great word play. People see all the money, and they think it's getting fixed. The reality is it's not getting fixed.
Then to top it off it will be another 2-4 years before the EPA makes a determination into who contaminated the water. Even though it was just as much the City of Anderson as it is the Businesses on the list of 100+ potential sources sent by way of email from Indiana House District 36 Kyle Pierce who has since recanted his email. We will be lucky if the EPA doesn't stall again or start back over from scratch as they throw out the other reports that cost us a lot of money when they were created. Back to square 0, and the people are getting screwed and not the elected officials or whoever is getting paid from the contracts.
Thank You!
11th Generation American Melungeon & Disgruntled Combat Veteran
Nicole (Schuyler) Kapuscinski
The first home I owned was in this town. That was approximately 1995-2000. At some point we were forced to have a new main waterline installed to reconnect us from the curb to the house. It was at our cost individually to hire the contractor to dig up our yards and replace clay tile lines installed by the cheapskate builder (National Homes) during approximately 1976-1977. Per the order, the city supplied the replacement plumbing parts during late 1990’s. I have no idea how widespread the use of clay waterlines were allowed in Lapel, IN over the years, but they claimed to have determined that the clay had begun to breakdown and allow sewage (and who knows what else) to seep into the drinking water thus IDEM required the upgrade. So it failed within just 20 -25 years?! I lived on the east side of Lapel, and the Owens-Corning (Brockway) glass factory was on the other side of the small town. I did have breast cancer 15-17 years after I left there, but I would be surprised if factory runoff would be the explanation for my cancer.
Unbelievable!! I’m going to dig into this!
Did anyone get that water tested to see what all was in it, we know for fact that all across America they put fluoride in the water and it is deadly. There's got to be more than just fluoride in that water.
I have high levels of tthms, present chromium. All within “legal” limit unfortunately.
"LEGAL" limits!!!! Shame on all of these agencies, etc ......They are useless, and even harmful to WE the people.
Are you in the area covered in this story? Who did the testing?
I don't know what those "things" you list are. Are they harmful? Cancerous?
Some of those things are harmful, some of them are cancerous yes, unfortunately.
Bri, If you haven’t already, please read my response where I explain what happened during my five years as a Lapel homeowner. I have a feeling that there could be other instances of failed clay tile waterlines that are allowing sewage and ground contamination into the “clean” water supply. If you think anything about my experience could be helpful to you, please let me know. I lived in The Meadows approximately 1995-2000.
This information is daunting. I’m gong to dig. bridavis985@gmail.com if you want to chat about it or think of info that may help relevant to that.
Thank you for sharing !!
Yes I am the Brianna Davis in the article.
We tested everything through the Indiana state health department and we tested for every test available.
Pesticides, PFAS, heavy metals, fluoride, tthms, VOCs , fluoride etc
Oh hello Brianna! I'm so sorry about your situation there.🤗
So, are they providing bottled water for drinking? And what about for doing dishes, for baths, showers, etc .....? Oh dear!!!
Hello!
Thank you, no right now they don’t believe there is an issue. They tell us “drink the water and you don’t have to boil it “ even if it looks like the pictures in the article. So they aren’t providing anything to get us by.. we just buy loads of bottled water for cooking and have a filter for our tub for bathing
You're very welcome!
And this is all new to me ----
Do I understand you correctly that "because all those chemicals/poisons are within legal limits" , that's why the town "leaders" say there's no issue, despite the color??
(Do they acknowledge the reports/tests done by the Health Department?)
Are they continuing to bill you all for "water" services in spite of these red flags?
And to place the burden of obtaining your own water!!!! Are we living in some 3rd world country? I'm thinking we do!!
SURE!! WE ALL LOVE GROSS COLORED WATER!! CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE A COOL DRINK OF THAT! WASH MY FACE, ETC ...... Sheeesh
https://www.multipure.com/pcrawford. MultiPure gave free water to Flint Michigan and Puerto Rico water disasters at the Boys and Girls Clubs -best filtration available. 5% off the best water filter made with COUPON: 110030
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