The I-Team got the state to admit the problem was theirs, but now it’s time to figure out a solution.
Officials from the state say the salt coming from their storage shed is the source of the problem, but they don’t know how it’s happening and that’s preventing them from implementing a permanent solution.
The Maldonado family in Woodstock replaced their pipes just last year.
The Channel 3 I-Team tested their water and the water of the neighboring Regis family.
The sodium in the Maldonado’s water is 390.
The Regis family 120.
“Don’t put it on the grass where it can leach into the groundwater, but keep it on the pavement where it will go into the catch basins where it will go to the storm water systems where it will take it far away from these homeowners’ properties,” Nursick said.
“The permanent solution will be dictated by the cause,” Nursick said.
The state says what the Maldonado’s and Regis’ are going through happened about a dozen times before, but this case is especially frustrating because the typical solution just isn’t an option in Woodstock.
The families say the fact that the state is admitting to the problem but providing no tangible solution makes it more frustrating.