BELMONT, N.C. — Residents in a Belmont community that have may have contaminated well water are frustrated because they can only use bottled weather during the extreme heat wave.
Duke Energy has been giving residents adjacent to Duke Energy's Allen Steam Station water.
Residents with contaminated wells hope for city water
It's been more than a month since residents there were warned not to drink their water.
"It's a little tough," Cameron Russell said. "You got to come outside in the garage and get water out of a jug or water bottle to cook and drink."
"I try to water my garden a little bit but is that going into the vegetables I'm going to be eating? I don't know that," said Johnny Spain who has lived there for 45 years.
Spain and his neighbors plan to push Duke Energy for answers about the safety of their drinking water at a community meeting Thursday.
The state has found 105 wells in Belmont have unsafe levels of contamination and many residents who live near coal ash ponds believe Duke Energy is to blame.
"We continue to find based on the data the states found that there's no indication that ash basins have had any influence on those wells," Duke Energy spokeswoman Erin Culbert.
Spain moved out of the city limits to enjoy well water and now he and many of his neighbors believe the water woes are too big of a hassle, and it may be time to look for another home.
A community meeting will be held Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Belmont Moose lounge.
City leaders and a representative from Duke Energy are expected to be there.
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