Wiscasset’s planning board on Aug. 22 found incomplete a blasting request from Drilling and Blasting Specialists Inc. According to the application, the Gardiner firm seeks to blast ledge for a foundation at lot 9, Young’s Point Road. Twin City Construction of Lewiston got a building permit in July for a two-story home projected to cost $985,250 to build, according to the permit.

John Menghini, 185 Young’s Point Road, told the board he lives next to the property and 40 feet lower in elevation. “My main concern is ... that the shock waves are going to travel through the same piece of ledge ...,” Menghini said. “I would hope ... they would use a number of small detonations as opposed to larger ones.”

Menghini also voiced concern explosions might close fractures that carry water to a well; and that any new wells would mean less water for everyone. “There are a lot of people in our locale that have experienced low water levels over the last couple of years,” he said. He suggested doing a survey on water’s availability as any new wells come in.

“There’s just a lot of unknowns that could potentially affect a lot of us,” such as where the blasts will be, James Kochan, 75 Hemlock Road, said.

The board said it needs more information from the applicant, who was not there. Reached Aug. 29, Drilling and Blasting Specialists Inc.’s owner, Tim Purington, told Wiscasset Newspaper the firm takes seismographic and other precautions and follows towns’ ordinances. “We wouldn’t have been in business for 35 years if we went around destroying houses. But we deal with (concerns) every day,” he said. He had not heard from the town about the outcome of the Aug. 22 meeting, he said.

Also Aug. 22, the board nodded a 7 p.m. Sept. 12 public hearing on the proposed Wiscasset Senior Housing at the former Wiscasset Primary School on Gardiner Road; and a 4 p.m. Aug. 30 site walk for the proposed expansion at NAPA Auto Parts, 693 Bath Road.