{"id":803583,"date":"2020-01-29T06:24:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378183"},"modified":"2020-01-29T06:24:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:24:45","slug":"new-hampshire-homeowner-sues-ice-castles-says-attraction-flooded-her-basement-with-over-15000-gallons-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/new-hampshire-homeowner-sues-ice-castles-says-attraction-flooded-her-basement-with-over-15000-gallons-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire homeowner sues Ice Castles; says attraction flooded her basement with over 15,000 gallons of water"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/800.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/800.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/800-300x203.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/800-768x518.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption><strong>In this Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019 file photo, a couple heads toward an entrance to a cavern at Ice Castles in North Woodstock, N.H. A neighbor to the seasonal attraction alleges that melt water from the Ice Castles&#8217; property flooded her basement with over 15,000 gallons of water in April 2019. <\/strong><br \/><em>AP Photo \/Robert F. Bukaty, File<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>NORTH WOODSTOCK, N.H. (AP) \u2014 A New Hampshire woman says the operators of a seasonal attraction of ice structures failed to control runoff and flooded her basement with over 15,000 gallons of water \u2014 and she worries it will happen again this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Trinkle alleges in a lawsuit against Ice Castles that last April, snow and ice melt from the attraction pooled in her backyard in North Woodstock and flooded her basement with 16 inches of water,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class href=\"https:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/post\/when-ice-castles-attraction-melts-where-does-water-go-neighbor-alleges-straight-her-basement#stream\/0\" target=\"_blank\">New Hampshire Public Radio reported Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trinkle is seeking $100,000 in damages but says her largest concern is not the lawsuit or the flooding, but what will happen this spring.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Ice Castles denied that the structures flooded Trinkle\u2019s basement, writing to NHPR that they were \u201clargely still in ice form\u201d when the flooding happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the topography of the land, the water that flooded the Trinkles\u2019 basement came from a large watershed,\u201d the lawyer wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Trinkle claims to have a video showing her walking the path of the water from her yard to the eastern edge of the Ice Castles property. She said she plans to submit it as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The North Woodstock Board of Selectmen is siding with Ice Castles, NHPR reported. An attorney for the town wrote a letter to Trinkle requesting she stop directing questions on the situation to the board.<\/p>\n<p>The three board members did not respond to request to comment from NHPR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/new-hampshire-homeowner-sues-ice-castles-says-attraction-flooded-her-basement-with-over-15000-gallons-of-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019 file photo, a couple heads toward an entrance to a cavern at Ice Castles in North Woodstock, N.H. A neighbor to the seasonal attraction alleges that melt water from the Ice Castles&#8217; property flooded her basement with over 15,000 gallons of water in April 2019. AP Photo \/Robert F. 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