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My Toxic Backyard

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Residents fight for clean water as an old manufacturing plant continues to leak toxins into the ground.

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My Toxic Backyard

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Chris McCoy Memphis Flyer 01/08/2020
The afflicted residents speak for themselves, aided strictly by onscreen captions. But their stories are honest, effecting, and deeply important in this era of rampant corporate crime. Go to Full Review
Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) 11/11/2014
4/5
Strong, sharply focused, straightforward activist documentary that allows its anger to be simply conveyed by amassing the facts and letting those directly impacted speak for themselves. Go to Full Review
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01/13/2015 Well put together and a subject people should be aware of. See more 01/13/2015 Disturbing. I checked the superfund site before buying a house. It amazes me how many there were across my hometown, See more 01/13/2015 A startling look at the incompetence (or corruption?) of the EPA, and the impacts on the lives of the residents whose faith that this governmental agency would do its job. People have died, and many others have gotten sick, as a result of exposure to the TCE this company poured into their drinking water. How is that not criminal? See more 01/13/2015 Great flick exposing the perils of industrial waste on local residents. See more 01/13/2015 This is important stuff. Communities need safeguards from businesses that flagrantly disregard environmental protection. It's personal for the families who live nearby such sites. The documentary is thorough, and scary actually. Solid editing & storytelling. "Toxic waste is closer than you think" is a great summation. See more 01/13/2015 Great Documentary about a superfund site in my home town. I've heard whispers and rumors since around 2002, but it wasn't until I saw "My Toxic Backyard" that I understood the crazy situation. And that there are bizarre sites like this all over the country and no funds to really clean them up! Yikes. Great narrative and just long enough at 1 hr. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Residents fight for clean water as an old manufacturing plant continues to leak toxins into the ground.
Director
Katie Damien
Producer
Katie Damien
Screenwriter
Jaime Byrd, Katie Damien
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
May 23, 2017
Runtime
1h 0m
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