The wells had been tested before blasting began, but tests in March revealed that some wells contained water that was unsafe to cook with or drink.
“They came back and said our nitrate levels had gone up to the point that we couldn’t use our water anymore,” Mike Kerrigan said.
“It’s only inconvenient when you’re cooking,” Corey Kerrigan said.
The Department of Transportation said of the five wells with elevated nitrate levels on Tarbell Road, one showed high levels before the blasting began.
The Kerrigan family is still getting used to it.
You’ve got to get ice from the store.” Not all of the wells on Tarbell Road have been affected.
Tom Langlois, who lives next door to the Kerrigans, has not had problems with his well water.
What’s happening to my pool?
What is happening to my well?
What’s happening to the foundation you can’t see?’” Langlois said.