A few residents in Susquehanna County find themselves in the middle of what is becoming a national controversy. A natural gas company that is drilling in the area had been supplying the homes with fresh drinking water, but the company has stopped, saying the community’s well water is safe. So many people disagree, however, that fresh water supplies are now starting to come in from some unlikely sources. A water truck from the city of Binghamton, New York showed up on Carter Road in Dimock Monday to deliver water. The mayor of Binghamton heard about Cabot Oil and Gas stopping water deliveries and said he wanted to help, and that’s not the only out-of-stater getting involved in this situation. It’s certainly not the Binghamton city streets this crew is used to. A water truck from the city 33 miles to the north was making its way from home to home along Carter Road near Dimock delivering water. That is what Cabot Oil and Gas was doing up until last Wednesday when the the state DEP said it no longer had to deliver water to residents on the road. “I used what we had sparingly. We’re just at the bottom now. If it didn’t come today, I was out of water,” said Carter Road resident Ray Hubert. Binghamton’s mayor, an environmental lawyer, said this is just one community helping a neighbor, but Carter Road has become a national symbol for environmental groups. People there have been in a dispute with Cabot for three years. They said drilling contaminated their wells. Cabot said it …
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