JAY — Several people toured the proposed site and operation of Clark’s Riverside Scrap Monday at the former Otis paper mill property. The Board of Selectpersons were taking up an application for a junkyard and automobile recycling permits on Monday night. The Planning Board will consider a shoreland zoning permit application because part of the […]
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DEP monitors minor Durham oil spill
DURHAM — State environmental officials on Monday were monitoring a small diesel fuel spill that occurred at a Durham wood processor Sunday morning. Scott Cyr, oil and hazardous material responder for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, said the spill was reported to DEP just after midnight Sunday. A tanker from Diesel Direct was filling […]
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Lewiston city staff braces for tough audit of storm sewer system
LEWISTON — The city staff is bracing for a tough audit in April that will judge how well they’ve done keeping storm runoff and city sewer overflows out of the city’s streams and the Androscoggin River. Public Works Director David Jones warned councilors Tuesday that the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the Federal Environmental […]
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DEP: Rumford diesel fuel spill estimated at 180 gallons
RUMFORD — A Dead River Co. tanker spilled an estimated 180 gallons of diesel fuel Thursday night in the parking lot of Circle K on Bridge Street after overflowing the underground tank while filling it, a state official said Friday afternoon in Augusta. Karl Wilkins, acting communications director of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, […]
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Maine DEP warns of unhealthy ozone levels
PORTLAND — Maine environmental officials have issued an air quality alert for the southern coast. The Department of Environmental Protection says the alert will be in effect from late Friday morning through the evening for coastal York, Cumberland and Sagadahoc counties. The DEP says ground ozone concentrations are expected to reach unhealthy levels. Officials say […]
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SAD 17 off the hook for cost of oil spill cleanup
HEBRON — While the cost to clean up more than 1,500 gallons of oil that leaked out of the Hebron Station School basement tank last December is unknown, the SAD 17 school district is not picking up the tab. SAD 17 Superintendent Rick Colpitts and Jessamine Logan, spokeswoman for the Department of Environmental Protection, both […]
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Quarter-mile section all that separates Androscoggin River from improved water-quality standard
LEWISTON — On a recent August afternoon, outdoorswoman and Bates College retiree Judith Marden was on the Androscoggin River, in Gulf Island Pond, learning to paddleboard. “I’m not very good at it,” the 69-year-old said with a laugh. The first time Marden tried “I fell off four times. I didn’t worry about falling into the Androscoggin. […]
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Turner selectmen appoint town officers
TURNER — Selectmen on Monday night approved the entire list of appointments: * Emergency management director and addressing officer, Ross Gagne; * Fire chief, Michael Arsenault; * Animal control officer, Wendell Strout; * Town clerk, deputy treasurer, deputy registrar of voters and deputy tax collector, Rebecca Allaire; * Tax collector, assistant deputy clerk and deputy […]
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Carthage anti-wind power advocate appeals Canton wind project approval
CANTON — A Carthage woman has filed an administrative appeal with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection of the eight-turbine wind project on Canton Mountain. Alice McKay Barnett, an anti-wind power advocate, submitted seven documents of supplemental evidence on July 17 that mostly concerns turbine noise adversely affecting health. The DEP approved the nearly $50 […]