Aiden Banks, 6, plays in the yard of his family's 10-acre land parcel in Hinkley on Thursday, March 7, 2013. Aiden is a third generation Hinkley resident. Seventeen years after Erin Brockovich and the movie she inspired was released, the future of the small High Desert town of Hinkley is at stake. In the last two years, residents have become aware that a toxic water plume continues to grow below their small town. (Rachel Luna / Staff Photographer)