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WELLINGTON;<\/strong> A provincial spokesperson said its news to them that residents are having issues related to blasting at the Aerotech Connector in Wellington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On a Facebook community page, residents had been posting about issues they were having.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The issues included a water line being cracked; severe washouts at an adjacent property near Oaken Hills (a shared driveway); to having to drill deeper in a well that was only two-years-old (from 200 to 400 feet now).<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elizabeth MacDonald, with the Department of Environment and Climate Change said those issues are concerning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNeither ECC nor Public Works have received any calls or reports to our offices,\u201d she told The Laker News when we inquired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said that the Department of Public Works does not require ECC approvals for blasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”102″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”71″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n MacDonald said if people think the blasting work is impacting their wells or groundwater, they should contact Public Works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They are required, as part of their Environmental Assessment approval, to have a Complaint Resolution Plan and Process at 902-424-8712 or the NS-ECC office in Bedford (902-424-7773). <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPublic Works is not aware of any impacts to wells but will work with the contractor to find a solution,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”192″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”105″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”169″] [adrotate banner=”206″] WELLINGTON; A provincial spokesperson said its news to them that residents are having issues related to blasting at the Aerotech Connector in Wellington. On a Facebook community page, residents had been posting about issues they were having. The issues included a water line being cracked; severe washouts at an adjacent property […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[212,5880,513,2,50,121,1684,5881,143,555],"class_list":["post-41556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aerotech-connector","tag-blasting-issues","tag-environment","tag-fall-river","tag-halifax","tag-hrm","tag-oaken-hills","tag-water-table","tag-wellington","tag-wells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}