DEP responses to crumbling GAC Chemical Shore December 2023 - January 2024. Verbal enforcement agreements?

Two informative Maine DEP email chains  of  12/2723 and 01/09/24 illuminate  the agency's responses to the collapses reported to them by Penobscort Bay Watch  along major portions  of  GAC Chemical's filled  shorelines in Searsport.   See list of the DEP officials in these emails and their missions

These are made available courtesy of  virtual newsers Pen Bay Pilot.

Importantly the emails reveal  DEP's  use of  "verbal agreements" to minimize their and the company's FOAA exposure - including to its insurers . Shielding the company from having its storm damaged coast officially (and expensively) acknowledged.  As if helping the company avoid becoming the poster child for mismanagement  of Maine's ever more  storm battered legacy industrial shorelines.

PLEASE READ THEM BELOW. MORE TO COME

December 27, 2023   "Not a disaster"   Knuuti to Miller, Hodgkins, Shannon, Redmond, Chapman. cc'd to Hopper, Bucci, Hopkins  

January 9, 2024 

2:28 pm David Madore shares PenBayPilot's Lynda Clancy's ask for details His message: "?? See below" ..." 

Staff Response: "GAC has Agreed to Repair the Damage. No order is forthcoming."

310pm Madore: "Okay. Is it accurate to say we have a verbal agreement after speaking with them?"