Ester Salinas

Mission-based environmental activist Ester Salinas has invited Maytag water resource specialist Caleb Alvarez to come back to her city and do more water testing. On his previous visit, Alvarez found that the level of arsenic coming out of the faucets in Salinas’ home were dangerously high. Salinas wants Alvarez to check arsenic levels in the water being piped into the homes of her neighbors in and around the Hayes-Sammons Superfund area. If the levels are high there also, Salinas says this could point to the water pipes being infected by toxic pesticides from the old Hayes-Sammons plant that seeped into the ground.