Hayter paid about $9,500 to have a deep new well drilled in his front yard before putting the property up for sale. Most wells in the county are less than 30 feet deep. Hayter drilled his well to 480 feet.
Danny Soles, a supervisor who has worked with the Health Department for 41 years, said that, in hindsight, the new well probably should not have been drilled because it could pull contaminants into the deeper aquifer.
Kevin Edwards, who bought the house from Hayter as a rental investment last year, said he knew about the new well, but nobody ever told him about the contamination in the old one. Under state law, people selling their homes do not have to disclose such information.
“I just thought it was time for the well to be done,” Edwards said.
He said he would never have bought the property had he known about the contamination.
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