MERIDEN — Many residents living in Meriden are upset over a notice they received in the mail about their water being contaminated for months with the city knowing, however.
they weren’t told until this week.
“I’m scared I don’t want to drink the water, I don’t want to cook with the water.
I boiled bottled waters last night to make my son macaroni and cheese for dinner cause I’m just so afraid,” said Ashley Pires who lives in Meriden on one of the streets that had contaminated water.
Robert Peter who’s the superintendent of operations of water and wastewater said he found out drinking water in Meriden was contaminated in November, but the levels rose to a tier 2 around January 1st.
Now at the end of the second quarter is when residents are being notified now that levels are below maximum contamination.
He said he didn’t notify residents after the first quarter because he was following guidelines from the department of public health which has a contamination scale of one to three.
One being the most dangerous, fell at tier 2, which is a chronic pollutant health effect meaning it would take a long time of consumption to have a health effect.
“I’m not gonna believe them I’m gonna continue drinking the bottled water,” Pires said.
“The city definitely let us down they’re still letting us down, they’re not going to give us any money off of our water they’re not gonna give us free water.”