Reminds me of being a kid staying at a friend's farm in the countryside for a week. Filled a glass with water from the kitchen tap, discolored water came out along with a tiny tadpole. I asked him where the water came from, and my friend said "Remember the pond we played at yesterday with the frogs?". I said "Cool!" and drank the water.
When I was young the city we lived near took away my grandparents farm by eminent domain and turned it into the city dump. We moved across the street. Within about 10 years our well water became fouled because the city was allowing businesses and people to dump hazardous waste directly onto the ground. Everyone in our family has thyroid problems which may be related.
After a few years the EPA made the city start providing us with bottled water, but the water we used for bathing, washing our clothes and feeding our animals still smelled bad. The largest concentrations of contaminants were found to be from dry cleaning fluid. The city has never admitted any wrong doing and no lawsuits were ever filed. But they had to do a lot of cleanup work.