raked across southeast texas, our drone footage shows the floodwaters still surrounding the san lorenzo jacinto superfund site where toxic dioxins from an old paper plant could have leaked. sam coleman is with the environmental protection agency. >> this san lorenzo jacinto waste pit, most likely we will take some samples at this site. >> reporter: of the 41 supersites where waste metals were stored, 13 of them are flooded. with waters receding, workers were finally able to see several locations up close. >> you can see some of the debris and other things are still quite muddy. >> reporter: coleman says the san lorenzo jacinto waste pit will require help. >> we have a team out looking at the cap area to see if there is in damage. >> reporter: that worries this mother of two who lives half a mile from the superfund site. >> this is my house, underwater. >> reporter: she returned home last week after ten feet of water destroyed her home. she had been cleaning up ever since. now you have a layer of sludge on the ground. >> yes. i know that the water is probably pretty bad, a lot of bacteria, a lot