Calls for lawmaker help as more Massachusetts homeowners face crumbling foundations [Video]

Another home in Worcester County had to be lifted off its foundation on Friday due to crumbling concrete. Homeowners say it’s a symbol of a problem Massachusetts lawmakers have failed to deal with.The Rutland home owned by Jeff and Kim Haynes was hoisted by work crews six feet into the air to make way for a new foundation. The concrete walls of their current basement are contaminated with pyrrhotite, a naturally occurring mineral found in parts of New England. If pyrrhotite makes its way into the aggregate used to make concrete, it can cause that concrete to fail prematurely.The state believes thousands of homes — perhaps as many as 7,500 — across central Massachusetts are at risk.Jeff Haynes says his concrete deteriorated rapidly.”It was about a year and a half ago, that I noticed some cracking,” said Jeff Haynes. “I obviously wasn’t thinking it was going to be this.”Haynes says …