Sorry this is long!! My husband and I bought our property in 2009 to build our home. We moved into it in November 2019. Fast forward to May 2023 one of our dogs, a toy poodle started to get very ill, and she was an older dog, so I thought it was just due to her age. She was vomiting blood and had bloody diarrhea. I took her to the vet where they had diagnosed her with liver and kidney failure. The same week I started to feel ill, with severe stomach issues. I sent my husband a text on May 9th, 2023 as he was out of town to let him know I was feeling ill as well. It was a strange illness, not like something I had felt before. Several different symptoms.

 We would leave to go out of town and I would feel great and would feel sick again when I returned home. I then thought it was something in the air, so I spent thousands of dollars and had an air quality test that showed very bad air quality in certain areas of the home. I went out and bought several air purifiers, got rid of our rugs, and mopped my WHOLE HOUSE, top to bottom with the well water trying to clean up the air quality. That didn’t help and seemed to make it worse. When I would swim in my pool there was a strong (metallic) smell and taste and the same vapor/gas was coming off the water. I would change our refrigerator water filters, and they would immediately say they needed to be changed again. My clothes seemed to bother me, like an allergic reaction. I would get a new outfit to wear it and have no issues and I would wash it and it smelled (like when you smell fabric softener on your clothes) like a very strong metallic odor. Then the reaction again.  At that point, I realized it was coming from the well water. It was being dispersed into the air.I called out the well guy and he wanted to shock my well as he said it was contaminated with bacteria. He shocked the well. I had it tested, and it showed high TDS and positive for different minerals, including high Arsenic. We paid to have new whole-house filters installed that brought the levels down to acceptable levels per the EPA standards. The issues persisted with vapor/gas coming from the water. I put blue Clorox bleach tabs in the back of the toilet tanks to sanitize and had to take them out within seconds as a vapor/gas was so strong it would take your breath away. I removed them immediately and flushed several times as I felt as if I could pass out.

   In May of 2024, we made the decision to start staying at an apartment in the city as the illness was too bad to stay in my home any longer. I have children, grandchildren, one 8-year-old who lives with me, and pets. The 8-year-old was having symptoms as well. I spoke with my neighbors and they stated that they are having water issues too. We paid to dig a new well at the opposite end of the property thinking it would correct the issues and paid to have a new RO system installed, at a cost of over $36,000.00. I was so happy thinking it was going to fix all of the water issues and we could move back into our home but was devastated as the new well water was worse than the old one after everything was hooked up and running through the house. The new well was closer in proximity to the creek in direction. The well placement was placed per the advice of the well guy and our old one was in the complete opposite direction. I started to look at the landscape and tried to figure out what could contaminate our well. I started doing research on how water flows, contamination sources, and how anything could possibly contaminate our well water.

 I took a walk down to the bridge that is located down the road from our home and at that time observed the County Sewer Outfall that was pushing out gallons upon gallons of water. We have had a drought, so our water has been stagnant in the creek. The water was pushing out so fast that it had ripples going up and down in both directions in the creek. I stood there for several minutes and then left. About 30 minutes later I got the same symptoms I had when I stayed in my home. I became very sick for several hours after being exposed to the air at the creek. I’m 100% without a doubt that whatever is being put in the creek from the County Sewer is coming in through my well water and into the air inside my home. My home is at a higher elevation than the creek and it floods up into the back of my property sometimes in the Winter.  At this time the County Sewer District has an NPDES permit and after looking up there are several violations listed for many quarters throughout the year. I don't know who to contact to do testing or where to turn for help. 

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Can raw chicken juice contaminate a sealed container? For instance if raw chicken juice spilled on tupperware in the fridge but it didn’t get on the food its self. PLEASE HELP!!!

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Woke up this morning to clearly Trichoderma. There is no way my Mycelium grew that fast as it has been 10 days in monotub. However, this morning a nice large patch of white. I about fell over. Its early. I have read a lot and dealt with this before to some success. The Question: Can I control it this early? Can I get rid of a patch about the size of a silver dollar? how? CUT IT OUT? It is in the very white stage. I will take any advice as I HATE when this happens. I have it happen too much in my opinion is the first issue. However, always working on that. Getting a PH reader for sure. I am not the guy who needs all this Tech stuff as growing has been fine but I am sick Trych when I see it. The Tub is new so any infected tubs are tossed or bleached so I dont get it. It is just nasty stuff. Any help to save a tub please........

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Looks white to me but just suspicious especially due to it's sudden pop.up. cobweb contamination?. Any ideas

So I just seen I have pin/fruit and notice what looks like cobweb mold. Will peroxide still help or will it hurt the fruit? I've got to save this tub. My last tubs had trichoderma and lost them. Please give me some advice on how to save it

I have pins on the left hand side already. But this area looks fishy. But it smells great. Earthy. Nothing sweet or sour.