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Aug 30, 2019

Bucksport mystery foam continues to plague Penobscot River

Sticky gelatinous foams have been appearing along the Bucksport Harbor shore this summer. 

See examples  from three different dates    060719    062019/   082219/

Yet when pressed to investigate, Maine DEP has apparently identified this as politically charged  wasteand has embraced the no-action alternative 

 The agency's behavior has been shameful.  Unacceptable.   Hopefully this a legacy of  Lepageism that will fade under a more enlightened Mills administration

Hopefully....

The  heavily polluted former industrial site is in process of demolition  Its old basements and subbasements are being dug up and cleared out.


Asked to investigate what is washing out of the site, known for its historic high levels of dioxin and mercury  DEP's responders dropped the ball.  They declined our photos or video or refrigerated samples.  Declined to meet with our person on the scene. Declined to issue a report to us. 

Turns out, that  they instead informed Bucksport's town manager of our call.  She the next day informed our River coordinator that there was no problem, nothing to worry about. 

The sort of content free assurance what makes one deeply suspicious, makes one doubt they collected a  drop of goop to confirm or deny it. 

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