Maine DEP officials involved in the 2023-2024 response to the GAC Chemical shoreline failures

The violent storms of  our recent Maine winters  both flooded and  destroyed many coastal structures vital to businesses and communities above those shores.These  have triggered state and federal responses. to repair bridges,  docks, bait and lobster sheds and more 

But lacking from the categories of  storm-vulnerable coastal sites needing attention are Maine's coastal shoreland  legacy waste  dumps.     Then we'll look at one  well documented coastal legacy waste site  that these recent storms have significantly damaged.South western Stockton Harbor 

We'll also look at the failure by state and federal agencies to  require action to stabilize and remove to upland these shoreline waste deposits now being exposed as  powerful storms erode poorly maintained industrial shore  of Stockton Harbor, first embayment at the mouth of Penobscot River. 

These are where  the buried waste  byproducts of  numerous  19th and 20th century coastal industrialoperatoins  feedstock chemical including phosphate fertilizer production , along with   demolition debris from outdated factories onsite  were actually used to expand and heighten indjustirally  useable shore land over existing beaches   Those aging filled shores  that have not received regular  maintenance  and were not  part of local sealevel rise  planning  priorities have  not  weasthered well .

These are Maine DEP's staff from field investigators  to bureau chiefs  involved in the Dec 2023-Jan 2024 response to a BayWatch report of a failing industrial filled  industrial shoreline, harmed by powerful  midwinter storms and storm surges  in these  agency emails   extracted fro a much larger, but from two FOAAs filed 12/2723 and 01/09/24  with Maine DEP

Karen Knuuti. Env specialist Remediation &Waste Mgmt  karen.knuuti@maine.gov  941-4561

Susanne Miller,  director, DEP Waste Bureau  557-2700   susanne.miller@maine.gov

Nicholas J. Hodgkins, Director, Division of Remediation
(207) 592-0882     nick.hodgkins@maine.gov

Bob Shannon Remediation, Eastern Maine Regional Office Robert.F.Shannon@maine.gov

Chris Redmond, Voluntary Remediation Reporting: (VRAP) Chris Redmond 215-8597

David Chapman. Oil & HAZMAT Spec  David.Chapman@maine.gov 287-7688 (DEP main #)
"[O]ver 14 years of experience in environmental investigation and remediation." 

Christopher Hopper, Director, Response Services, Central ME Reg  Office   816-0133 Christopher.Hopper@maine.gov

John Bucci,  Inspector, Remediation & Waste Management  John.A.Bucci@maine.gov  557-1194

Carla Hopkins   Chemical Contaminated Soil Cleanup.  Carla.J.Hopkins@maine.gov  446-4366 

David Madore MDEP Deputy Commissioner 207-287-5842  David.Madore@maine.gov

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