Waterfall forms on Mass. Pike in Becket

BECKET, Mass. (WWLP) - Usually it is just a trickle, but now a waterfall has formed along the Mass Pike in Becket.

The water has been rushing out of the rock formation on the side of the highway since Tropical Storm Irene dumped heavy rains across the region.

Some of the rushing water has actually gotten onto the roadway, and has forced the closure of right lane of the westbound pike for a short stretch near mile marker 16.

Residents on nearby Beaver Brook Road say their street is nearly impassable and every rainfall just adds to the issue.

"The mini waterfall that's flowing into the wet lands and then there's a culvert under the wet lands that is forcing all that water,” Cherylann Henry of Becket said, “And sand, I've never seen so much sand, and there was a big wheel down the road there and it wasn't from one of my grandchildren it must have come from across the way.”

"All we want is some is help. This is a disaster and it needs to be fixed, otherwise we're going to be flooded out every time it rains, and we can't live like that,” Alfred Chagnon of Becket said.

The residents on this street say that although their road is private, they hope the town will start preparing sandbags for them before the next major rainfall.