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West Modesto residents still question state’s handling of toxic soil beneath Highway 132 as expansion continues

Seven years ago, when west Modesto resident Lori Wolf heard there was barium-laced soil piled along Kansas Avenue through her neighbors, she decided to take a sample of her family ranch’s well water to a lab.  The test confirmed there was  barium in the dirt – and at elevated levels. Her Wood Colony ranch, which produced almonds and now alfalfa, sits about three and a half miles from where the stockpiles from a former…