About five months after a water issue at Wiscasset’s Whippoorwill Mobile Home Park appeared resolved, other problems have occurred and are being addressed, according to emails Wiscasset Newspaper received Monday, Aug. 13 from a lawyer for park management.

Attorney Mike Harman of Bloomer Russell Beaupain in Bangor, representing Maine Real Estate Management (MREM), said the water system was shut off after a leak turned up the night of Friday, Aug. 11. Repairs were made and service resumed the next morning, Harman said.

Whippoorwill has contracted with Water Quality Compliance to operate the park’s water system, effective Aug. 11, he said. And the park is also now contracting for twice daily, bulk water deliveries to the water distribution system, instead of once a day. “Finally, the park has (arranged) with Bowie Brothers to drill a new supply well at the park to eliminate the need for the bulk deliveries; that well will be drilled as soon as the drillers can get to it.”

He added, two 24-bottle cases of drinking water are being delivered to each tenant every five days, and WB Mason will be delivering three pallets – each with 500 one-gallon containers of water – every week to a shed in the park for any tenant who needs more.

In March, service resumed after weeks of being off and on, according to Wiscasset Newspaper files. An automatic restart was added after pumps repeatedly kicked off due to a water shortage, Harman said then.  

In the new emails and a phone interview Monday, Harman noted another recent issue involving grey sediment, or “fine grit” tenants had in their water. He said the park had received no new complaints from tenants on this since Clean Harbors cleaned the storage tanks. He said a television station said it heard from tenants, but if there have been instances, and if MREM knew which tenants, it could check out the problem. He suspected it would be nearer those tenants’ homes, as, he said, it would not be from the newly cleaned tanks.

“It is possible that a tenant may have a crack or leak in the line leading to their unit, which would allow water out and infiltrate in, but the park cannot sort that out unless a tenant makes the park aware of having that problem,” Harman said via email.

And in a phone interview Monday night, a tenant Wiscasset Newspaper has spoken with before, Tom Kurtz, was pleased about plans for a new well at the park and about all the water being delivered. “Oh, boy. They’re doing that, alright. I’ve got more water than I know what to do with. I’m asking my neighbors with big families if they need more water,” he said laughing.  As for the new well, he said, “We can only be hopeful” that it will help.