At the recent Zoning Board of Approval meetings, the lawyer for Pike Industries challenged several Spring Street area residents – my husband was one of them – on their recollection of blasting activity at the Spring Street quarry by asking if it was possible they missed 40 years of blasting activity because they weren’t home during the day.

I have lived at 572 Spring St. for 37.5 years and have been fortunate enough to be a stay-at-home mom and raise our two children, who are now grown. I have never felt any blasting until the last couple of years and have certainly never felt the house shake like to does now when Pike blasts. The noise and trembling are so loud that the little children that I now care for during the day are startled and ask, “What was that?” when the blasting happens.

Since I have spent very little time away from the home during normal business hours, I am certain that blasting activities did not occur previously as they have over the last year and a half.

If this blasting is allowed to continue or, worse yet, increase along with rock-crushing activities, life on Spring Street will certainly not be the same. Our day-to-day life will certainly be impacted in a negative way, as will the lives of all the other neighbors and businesses around us.

Linda C. Daley

Westbrook