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Apr 17, 2025

Kidder Point Spills & Responses 1983 to 1998

*A good reference map  1993 Delta Chemical site map large jpeg 

Delta Chemicals & General Alum's spills  reported to DEP October 14, 1983 to March 18, 2020      Maine DEP reports on each of the above spills  Each entry brief but info-rich


Consultants  Reports

1965
Northern Chemical site at Kidder Point examined in 1965 by consultants re a Superfund court case in Massachusetts   For ease of reference I have made a separate link to the report's FIGURES pages. 
Summary: Chemical company  Grace Brothers was part owner with Northern Chemical  in mid 1960s operations at Kidder Point.  GB was being sued in federal court Superfund case   re their main operation in Massachusetts and had to submit this  report  describing in detail* the chemical operations  taking place on  their Maine property on Kidder Point  and the local climate , demography and culture  active there in the late 1960s.  That case was later dramatized in the book  "A Civil Action".  which  itself was dramatized in a movie of the same name featuring John Travolta 
* description of waste management is nearly nonexistent in this report 

1984
* Delta Chemicals' 1984 acid spill.  Plus appendices
Consultant E.C. Jordan was hired to (1) assess hydrology of groundwater flow, (2) assess the extent of the sulfuric acid plume in the soil and groundwater and (3) see how much has gone offsite via groundwater.


1990

 * 9/14/90 Testing of 'Alum Reactor Waste'  by Maine Environmental Laboratory

 

1991

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