AND NOW FOR THE TRUTH

After speaking to some people who are unaware of the time line with regards to the well, I will try to clearly explain.
In May of 2005 we entered into a purchase agreement for our property and one of the conditions was to have a good water test and a well agreement for the property. The well serviced 4 properties and after many months and negotiations between the town and lawyers and the previous owner a well agreement could not be reached. At this time it was quite clear who owned the well, the Municipality. At that point I stepped in and contacted Councilor Terry Seiler who took us down to the municipal office where we had a discussion with Kriss Snell the clerk at the time. He explained that the other people on the well did not want a new well agreement and he offered to sell us the well for $1.00 and although we did think about it we refused the offer. It was decided at that point that the municipality would bring us water from their other well. This was the only reason the purchase agreement went through, in August of 2005. We moved onto the property with the understanding we would be receiving municipal water that fall. When winter started to approach we started to realize we would not be getting the water supply until the following spring. It was during the fall and winter that the well was found to be contaminated with E.coli by someone else on the well who had it tested. When spring came I contacted the municipality about getting the water. It took me contacting the Mayor to finally get the construction started and finally get a potable water source. We only signed the documentation for the water to get the water, we had no choice and they gave us no other choices. It was made quite clear to the Municipality that I had been on this well contaminated with ecoli for 10 months and I was not happy about it. They never offered to correct the contamination or monitor the well. The Municipality was now a year later, after offing to sell the well to us and trying to negotiate a well agreement started stating the MTO owned the well. I contacted the MTO to correct the unsafe condition of the well, the road grader blades had been moved and the well was open. They came out the next day and surveyed the well and found they did not own the well. The municipality owned the well. The municipality had continued to say the MTO owned the well until this year and I have stated right from the beginning that we should not have had to pay a hook up fee for the water. We were already on Municipal water. It has always been their responsibilty. I have been asking for my money back since 2006 and will continue to, five years later.