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You Were Told to Leave Your Home at Dawn — Now You Are Sitting Somewhere Else, Wondering What Is Soaking Into Your Land If you are reading this from a hotel room, a relative’s couch, or your car parked outside the evacuation zone on M-51, you already know the facts better than any headline can carry them. A fuel tanker overturned on a Wednesday morning after 6:30 a.m. on M-51 at Peavine Street in Pokagon Township, near Dowagiac. Four thousand gallons of gasoline poured out of it. Michigan State Police shut the highway in both directions and ordered everyone within 1,000 feet to get out. Of those 4,000 gallons, 1,500 were recovered. Two thousand five hundred gallons were not. They are in the soil. They are in the groundwater. And if your home draws from a private well — as most homes in this part of Cass County do — they may be moving toward the water your family drinks. We are writing this page because the news reports tell you what happened. They do not tell you what to do about it. They do not explain that the trucking company’s insurance adjuster has already opened a file, that a…