Dear Editor:

Is everyone who is a ratepayer for town sewer aware that a huge project of blasting for sewer pipes on the middle portion of the north end of Campbell Street that hardly serves anyone may be going through next fall?

We had a town approved septic with a drainage field ($10,000) for 10 years when we were forced into the town sewer line for another $10,000 and now we had made arrangements with the sewer company and the neighbor who said the town attorney at the time, Chip Griffin, didn't do the correct easement into their sewer line that the town had hired a contractor to do, which they claimed wasn't connected properly, either.

It cost that neighbor $25,000 because of a back-up. We were then told by the town that we were responsible for what needed to be done. Thankfully, our neighbor is paying for a new line (almost $5,000) and we need to pay $900 for new pipes. We have started the project.

Now, after all these years of asking the town about continuing the sewer line, which they wouldn't and all the money my mother had to pay out and the other neighbor, the town sewer is planning to extend the sewer line which isn't needed on this section of Campbell Street, since everyone is connected except the neighbor who complained about us.

I thought we were in a recession. This is not the time town ratepayers can afford to increase their sewer bills.

Marie Tupper
Boothbay Harbor