1,4-Dioxane Water Contamination preventing me from starting a garden

Hey ya'll,

I live in a neighborhood that has, since the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency published a report on it three years ago, has understood to have a water table polluted by 1,4-Dioxane.

I live in a home that had to get water delivered for about three years until they hooked us onto city water, and in the mean time all of our water that was using a private well was contaminated, including the showers, sinks, etc. The 1,4-Dioxane is probably from the landfill that we live nearby leaking into the groundwater, but the damage is already done. I've been interested in Permaculture for years, and I love watching videos and reading about it, but only recently have I started to very barely touch certain aspects of it in practice. I tried a diy micro-wicking bed made out of a plastic jug I cut in half to grow some tomatoes with a paper towel wick and put some stock store soil on it, and the seeds were so virulent we had to find spaces in pots for them outside. I've been wanting to stop my family from harvesting the Fall leaves every fall and collecting that to compost at a composting site, and instead compost it here either with a vermicomposting system or otherwise, finally regenerating nutrients instead of bleeding them.

But my question is; how do I bioremediate the 1,4-Dioxane that exists in our groundwater on the property, before I try to create a kitchen garden or food forest in it? I don't want to expose myself to more of the toxic gick.
I've found some papers and stuff on it, like this one Advances in bioremediation of 1,4-dioxane-contaminated waters, this one, Phytoremediation of 1,4-dioxane-containing recovered groundwater , and this one Using Phytoremediation to Remove 1,4 Dioxane from Groundwater in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I've even seen a bacterial solution in the form of this Allonia, but I'd really like to hear from the permies about it.

Despite the fact the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency was responsible for the pollution, it wasn't legally required for them to do a long-term health test of the residents affected, including me. How cool is that?
Anyways, enough doom and gloom, can you help me out?
Thanks!

Hi Esther. That's a harsh situation. What concentrations are you finding in your well?

I doubt you can fix groundwater in a localized fashion. The volumes are just too large.

How high is your water table? Do you think your soil is also heavily affected?

I think there is always an option to build a garden -- raised beds fed with captured rainwater are pretty safe, even if there is funky business deeper down. Perhaps that's the place to start?

Luck!

Welcome to the forum!

I know nothing about your situation though ...

Every time I water my garden I use alkaline water.

Since our soil is alkaline we made raise beds only to put alkaline back into those beds every time I water.

My suggestion is to put a container of water to sit overnight then have it tested to see if the Dioxane dissipated overnight?

Other than that, what kind of help are you looking for?