t's also encompassssed, it wras around like all my organs, heart, lungs and kidneys and all that and there's nono surgical way too remove it. without me either bleeding out on the table or becoming a vegetable, i was told. >> i would buy the powdered similac and i would mix it with tap water. and so everyrything that my son got was mixed from the toms river tap water. ii reaeally believed d that tha where his cancer came from.m. >> in the late 1970's when michael was first diagnosed, there initially was no connection made to drinking water. it wasn't until a dramatic day in 1984 that would spur linda and any others in the community to investigate their water quality. ciba's ocean pipeline that had now been operating for 18 years burst at the intersection of bay and vaughn, right in the iddle of one of toms river's busiest intersection. the stink of the pipe couldn't be ignored. >> a lot of people were new to this area and weren't even aware this pipeline existed and the realality washat the pipeline r ran from the toms rivever chemical plant 10 miles across the mainland of toms river