We Moved here last June and were taken by the ease of dealing with the people, homeschooling and life in general, we adore the scenery and most everything else about NH.  However, coming from Massachusetts I am being reminded of the Woburn, MA water scandal.  The towns water supply was not a real concern to anyone until a lot of little children and people came down with cancer and other issues in a small area.  Troy, the town we moved to is a cool little town.  The epitome of small town America to me.  When we moved here we received from our landlords, a notice about the questionable water quality in our quaint little town.  We were able to see the notice only because we pay for our own water.  The notice was to alert the residents of Troy that the water was in danger of lead contamination and was due to be cleared up by June 2007 but the water department was in some kind of trouble for not getting out the notice to the residents sooner. We went to the water department and asked about the lead levels and we were reassured by them that testing has been done and there was nothing to worry about.   So, with that,  we figured we were past the deadline and Troy had to comply according to the letter and we tried not to be too concerned about the situation.  In the past few months since, we have had to pay the water bill three times.  We have been floored by the $300. quarterly payment despite how we try to conserve the water.  We are coming from the Boston area and paying MWRA water rates that were supposed to be the most in New England, I thought.  Even there, with a two family home, water and sewer for both was only $170. a quarter.  Just to make matters worse, we got two notices recently from the water department.  The first one was about how they are raising the rates to cover things like the insurance for the water departments employees?!?!  Then, we were informed that not only did they not comply with the June 07 deadline to test/ clean the water, we are now in danger of lead and copper contamination.  We try to use the water here as little as possible anyway but there have been times we have had to use the water.  I am 4 months pregnant and quite concerned about the baby for the fact the water may be contaminated.  I have heard enough stories of lead causing autism, along with the concern for the rest of my family.  We have been buying water to cook with and to drink and hardly using the water at all, yet the bill some how stays the same and is now going to increase due to the rate hikes.  How is it possible that the Troy water department does not do what needs to be done in overseeing our water quality, raise rates and remain untouched.  This last notice still does not explain what New Hampshire plans to do about Troy's blatant disregard for the residents here.  Who is going to pay for our medical bills if people start getting sick here when we have to pay for their employees to not do their job?  Why does it always take people to get sick in a cluster before some one gets concerned?  I have written to the governor and am awaiting a response.  We will see what, if anything will be done and how many people I have to go through to get an answer.  

***Another tidbit of information, we already pay a $9 a bill bond.  From what I hear (I have not been able to look into this for factuality yet), this bond is for another person in the water dept. who messed up some time ago and was fined.  When he didn't pay, the residents of Troy were made to pay his bond....What is up with that??

We, like most people these days, are broker than broke.  What I see here is a bunch of people doing what they are supposed to do, IE pay their bills, and get penalized for it because the people who should be making sure our rates are correct and the water consumable are falling way short of a job well done.... They aren't even reaching the line of a job done at all!!

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