In just a few days, it'll be one year since the village of East Palestine was flipped upside down.

The toxic train derailment leaving behind contaminants, fear and uncertainty but as the village moves forward, testing at ground zero continues.

"The water that we're coming into the system right now is actually looking very good," said Chris Hunsicker, Norfolk Southern's Regional Manager of Environmental Operations. "The areas we've done our work, we've done our excavation we got confirmation that those materials have been removed, that water quality is actually looking very good," he said.

The rain water they're testing comes from surface level ditches and they're also testing sediment. The testing takes place daily in the waste water treatment plant on site.

Norfolk Southern wants to be sure no contaminants find their way into Sulphur Creek.

"The areas of the streams that we saw were impacted dring the derailment, there's a couple that we did a lot of cleanup work there, there's still some more work that needs to be done," Hunsicker said. "We've got those comments back from the regulators and we're working on those and we're hoping to be able to implement that work and wrap it up here in the spring," he said.

The EPA reports to date, all holding tanks on site have come back with no vinyl chloride present.