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Health & Fitness

4 Years Later

Well its been almost four years since the Kleen energy plant explosion. Looking at the plant, and the surrounding properties, you'd never know it happen. All except one that is.
A Wellwyn Dr resident still has serious issues (most self inflicted).
When the blast hit it cracked bed rock that ran under his home, shifting it, and causing his foundation to break. Serious damage on any home, but since this home is perched precariously on the edge of a cliff overlooking the river the damage could become deadly.
After the blast there were offers from the contractor, and their insurance carrier, all were turned down by the home owner. Instead he lawyered up, and filed suit.

In the mean time he dug up his foundation, undermining it, along with a retaining wall, and a hillside which is home to his electrical service transformer.
He dug up a dry well diffuser that would normally handle run off from a neighboring property. He dug, and dug, and dug, until he broke his machine. Then everything stopped.

Four years later that is how it sits, the house, undermined, and leaning towards the river. the embankments slowly collapsing. The diffuser, exposed letting water wash away more and more hillside with each rain. The electrical transformer undermined and leaning over the hill. The electrical service is lashed to a tree (which has also been undermined) with rope.
The home doesn't even have running water (at least not in a coventienal sense). There is an illegal surface line run (a garden hose) to storage tanks in the basement that have to be re filled every few days. Ct Water has disconnected it, but the home owner reconnects it soon after they leave.
Water flows freely under the house, and over the cliff above the river creating channels below the foundation.

In the basement beams sit atop small piles of stone that are rebuilt often due to the eroding soil beneath them.
Fuel oil is stored in a plastic milk jug, and transferd to the hot water heater via plastic hose.

A sad state of affairs? Yes. A poor homeowner who was wronged by big business? Not quite.
While this property continues to collapse the homeowner spends money on new sports cars, and trips to warm climates, all the while crying foul. Suing everyone he can.

The house, never should have been built where it is, and in its current state should most likely be condemed.
But, if repairs aren't made to the property soon, I believe nature will take over, and the little house on Wellwyn Dr. will find its final resting place, on the banks of the Connecticut River.
 

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