HOLDEN, Mass. - A group of homeowners will head to the state house next week to discuss crumbling home foundations.

Rick and Karen Riani are among the people impacted. The Holden residents had to replace their 18-year-old foundation in 2021 after discovering cracks in their basement.

Homes with concrete foundations containing the mineral pyrrohotite are impacted and homeowners say their homes are cracking, crumbling and turning to dust and want to prevent this from happening to others. The mineral is believed to have come from a quarry in Connecticut, but there may be others in Massachusetts.

The Riani's are hopeful more people will come forward.

“We started getting water in our basement, it was in that section” said Rick Riani. “So when I started taking the walls down I saw the horrendous cracking, all the horizontal cracking. We were out of our house for four months because you can’t live here because of course everything is disconnected. Everything has to be removed out of the basement, your furnace, your hot water tank, everything. Then they have to take out the old foundation.”

“Our goal is to let our voices be heard this year” said Karen Riani. “Let the legislators know that this is going to be impactful and that the bill has to get passed for the state to move on. Connecticut did it, Massachusetts can certainly do it.”

The Riani's had to pay $280,000 to replace their foundation. Currently, homeowners insurance does not cover the cost of repair and the only way to fix a foundation is to replace it.

The couple is part of the group going to Boston Tuesday. They're hopeful lawmakers will pass legislation to have the state regulate quarries and pass another bill to help homeowners pay for the costs.