WESTBROOK – After more than a year of wrangling with the city and angry neighbors, officials at Pike Industries finally got to do the production blasting they had been waiting for this week.

So far, city officials have heard no serious repercussions from nearby residents, but that doesn’t mean no one noticed the blasts.

“It was a good one. It rocked right through the neighborhood,” said Oriole Street resident Gary Swanson of Pike’s blast on Friday afternoon.

Swanson has been a vocal critic of the Pike quarry ever since he learned of the company’s plans to step up its operations there. The company owns a quarry at 645 Spring St., which has officially been in use by Pike and preceding owners for several decades.

But as local residents have pointed out, the quarry has been virtually dormant for years, until Pike officials decided to shift operations from its other property on Main Street to the Spring Street quarry. The quarry’s neighbors, which include Idexx Laboratories, Artel, Smiling Hill Farm and residents on Spring Street and the nearby Birdland neighborhood, have not been happy with Pike’s plans.

Idexx threatened to cancel its plans to build a $50 million corporate headquarters on its property, which is next door to the quarry, until the city brokered an agreement with Pike, which was signed by a Cumberland County Superior Court judge in the fall of 2010.

The agreement, which sets boundaries for when and how Pike can use the quarry, including disruptive production blasts, was enough to quell Idexx’s concerns, but other area residents have sued to nullify the agreement. That lawsuit is still pending.

Meanwhile, Pike officials last month asked for and got a permit to conduct up to eight production blasts by the end of the year. Within the past week, Pike has used two of those blasts, one on Friday and another on Monday.

This week, Westbrook officials have not heard much from the quarry’s neighbors in response to the blasting. Officials in the city’s code enforcement office, where complaints would be heard, said on Wednesday afternoon that all they have received so far is an email from Swanson, informing them the blasts shook his house.

“It’s a good rumble,” Swanson said Wednesday.

The shaking, not the noise, he said, is his concern. Over time, Swanson said, he fears the vibrations will do damage to his foundation.

“It’s not really the noise,” he said. “Planes make noise. That won’t hurt your foundation.”