A grandmother in Crooksville said two of her grandson’s prized goats were killed by Listeria and she blames the city’s water system for it.

Kim Burkhart said her veterinarian told her the goats came down with the disease from contaminated soil. There’s a Crooksville pump station on the edge of her property. She said the soil samples showed high levels of E coli that she said is coming from a leak at the pump station.

“We hear story upon story upon story and we’re tired of stories,” Burkhart said. “All we want is, if it’s (the city’s) situation, we want it fixed.”

Her grandson was raising the goats as part of a 4H project. The boy had hoped to show one of the goats at the Perry County Fair. “When he actually saw they had died, it was devastating to him,” she said. “We didn’t know what to say to him. We all cried.”