By Pam Johnson
Publication: SND
Wells are running dry and patience is running thin for a handful of Cedar Lake Road residents seeking to resolve a promised water extention project. Since 2003, the state's been promising 100 percent reimbursement for new water service connections, after the DEP confirmed the potential for future well water pollution, from PCE produced by former dry cleaning facility (Hartt property). To date, the Cedar Lake Road residents' well water has tested potable, which may be why the State Bonding Commission has been passing over taking action on the project, year after year. But worried residents are now demanding action. The town would be reimbursed 100 percent of the costs, but wants assurances from the state before going ahead with the job. Read more about it in my story in The Sound Sept. 16.