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(29 Jul 2019) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus121091 VOICE-OVER SCRIPT: THIS HOUSE LOOKS FINE FROM THE STREET ... BUT A LOOK INSIDE TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY. USING ONLY HIS FINGERS, GENERAL CONTRACTOR DON CHILDREE PULLS APART THE CONCRETE FOUNDATION. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Childree, General Contractor "It's going to turn to gravel. This is going to disintegrate. When the house comes off of this and we try to jackhammer it we probably will just hit it with the bit and it will just turn to gravel." THE CONCRETE HOLDING UP THIS HOUSE AND THOUSANDS OF OTHERS IN CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS CONTAINS A BROWNISH IRON SULFIDE CALLED PYRRHOTITE (pronounced "pier uh tite"). UPSOUND (English) Don Childree, General Contractor "They call it fool's gold you see the sparkle in it?" THE  PYRRHOTITE COMES FROM A LOCAL QUARRY THAT PROVIDED AGGREGATE FOR CONCRETE USED TO BUILD STRUCTURES FROM 1983 UNTIL 2015. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Childree, General Contractor "Why is because they should not have put that in the concrete...nobody around here knew what it was." THE PYRRHOTITE REACTS WITH WATER AND OXYGEN OVER THE YEARS CAUSING THE CONCRETE TO CRUMBLE. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Fisher, Homeowner "Unfortunately this entire neighborhood I don't know if you've known, everybody is infected." KEN FISHER AND HIS WIFE HAD THIS HOUSE BUILT IN 1984. BIG CRACKS ARE VISIBLE ALL AROUND THE FOUNDATION. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Fisher, Homeowner "The best analogy I've heard if some people get cancer they won't admit it they just ignore it I swear that's what happens to a lot of these people they just won't deal with it they just turn their back. Eventually that problem is going to rest with someone, whether that's their children." HIS NEIGHBOR WENDY PADULA HAS THE SAME TYPES OF CRACKS. SHE KEEPS TRACK OF THEM BY DATE. SOUNDBITE (English) Wendy Padula, Homeowner "It doesn't just affect us. It affects the community. It affects banks. It affects mortgages. It affects the selling of the homes, real estate, taxes all the way down the line." THIS IS A FAMILIAR SITE IN EASTERN CONNECTICUT RIGHT NOW… RAISED HOMES…MORE THAN A HUNDRED THIS SUMMER ALONE…AS CONSTRUCTION CREWS REPLACE THE FOUNDATIONS ON THE WORST-HIT. AFTER YEARS OF LOBBYING BY HOMEOWNERS, THE STATE HAS NOW CREATED A FUND TO PAY UP TO 175-THOUSAND DOLLARS TOWARD THE COST OF REPLACING A HOME'S CRUMBLING FOUNDATION…WITH THE HOMEOWNER PICKING UP THE REST OF THE TAB. IT COSTS BETWEEN 150 AND 300 THOUSAND DOLLARS TO REPLACE A HOME FOUNDATION. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Brenn, Homeowner "You know the state was able to, thank God, step in." FEMA AND MOST HOME INSURANCE COMPANIES HAVE REFUSED TO PAY FOR WHAT MANY HOMEOWNERS DESCRIBE AS A NATURAL DISASTER.   SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Brenn, Homeowner "I mean it is no different than a flood that comes every 500 years" PETER BRENN HAS HAD TO PUT IN THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF HIS OWN MONEY, BUT HE'S HAPPY THAT HIS HOME -  LIKE MANY PEOPLE, HIS BIGGEST INVESTMENT - WILL NOT GO TO WASTE. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Brenn, Homeowner "It's water over the dam you know we are going to move on." IT TAKES UNDER TWO MONTHS TO REPLACE A CONCRETE FOUNDATION, SO ELEVATED HOMES LIKE THIS COULD BE A FAMILIAR SITE HERE FOR YEARS TO COME AS POLICY MAKERS TRY TO FIGURE OUT THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM, AND COME UP WITH THE MONEY TO FIX THE THOUSANDS OF MORE HOMES THAT WILL DETERIORATE OVER TIME. TED SHAFFREY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, VERNON CONNECTICUT Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...