Her dogs kept dying, and she got cancer. Then they tested her water.

Her dogs kept dying, and she got cancer. Then they tested her water.

Debbie Blankenship’s wheelchair carved perfect lines in the grass as she rolled into her backyard garden, passing a wooden arch filled with small grapes, a bush with plump blueberries and yellow crates filled with sprouting potatoes. She stopped at a dirt patch with a burial marker for her beagle - the latest of her dogs to die of cancer.