Residents of Wells River are still grappling with uncertainty about their water supply after the village well was shut down in July as a precautionary measure following an oil spill that contaminated the surrounding area last January.

Since the village well was turned off, the nearly 500 residents who depended on it have been relying on water from nearby Woodsville, New Hampshire, which has been hauled across the Connecticut River by trucks carrying about 30,000 gallons of water per day, according to Erik White, one of the village’s trustees. But those trucks will no longer be able to climb the hill to deliver water to the storage tank during winter months.

The possibility of going without water has alarmed residents, but White said the trustees are doing everything they can to prevent t

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