Penobscot Bay Report. Jan 10, 2015: Fundy Baykeeper, Coastal Cod Habitat of Particular Concern

Fundy Baykeeper January 7, 2015

Matthew Abbott, the Fundy Baykeeper, spoke at the January 7th meeting of Friends of Penobscot Bay 

Matt's 11 minute talk, 

Matts Q&A Session 1 10 minutes

QA2, 10 minutes

QA3 10 minutes

QA4 7minutes 
QA5  8 minutes 
QA6  6 minutes
QA7 to end. 7 min

HAPC SPEAKERS January 5, 2015

Introduction by NEFMC 2min30 sec

 Genevive Kulik-Macdonald

 Richard Alvin lobstering

Robin Hadlock Seeley

Ron Huber

Habitat Areas of Particular Concern - AUDIO from a 1/5/15 webinar by NEFMC

Here are four Mainers who spoke during the public comment period of the New England Fishery Management Council's January 5th webinar-style public hearing on its "Omnibus Habitat Amendment 2". 


SPEAKERS

* Richard Alvin (lobsters), 
* Genevieve Kulik Macdonald (lobsters), 

* Ron Huber (inshore Juvenile cod) 
* Robin Hadlock Seeley (inshore juvenile cod)
* Full  webinar audio 49 min

This Week: Penobscot Bay/Maine Coast Needs YOU. Tues eve Brewer. Wed eve Belfast

Bay-huggers

Important things are coming up this week, Maine saltwater fish habitat-wise. Penobscot Bay and all of the Gulf of Maine could benefit by your presence - actual and/or virtual! Your choice!   

In reverse order:

* January 7th.  FOPB's monthly meeting Belfast Library 6-7:30.  Briefing by Maine Ocean Acidification Commission leader Mick Devin, state legislator from Newcastle, on the recommendations of that commission, followed by Fundy Baykeeper Matthew Abbott from New Brunswick, Canada on the Canadian Keeper experience and on organizing a Penobscot Baykeeper program. Plus a GAC Chemical update.

* January 6th  New federal rules to protect habitat of inshore juvenile cod. Brewer,  6:00 - 8:00PM

Location Jeff's Catering and Event Center, 15 Littlefield Road,Brewer, ME 207.989.1811 

WHAT.  Public hearing on new federal fish habitat protections for all of New England's coastal and offshore fishes. See map of proposed and existing habitat protection areas  (Orange and Green sites are the new ones)

Of particular interest for Penobscot Bay protectors is the Inshore Juvenile Atlantic Cod Habitat Area of Particular Concern (4 page excerpt from above document. pdf) This "HAPC" will include the entire New England coast running parallel to the shore in a shallow ribbon from the low tide line to either the 10 meter (32 foot) or 20 meter (65 foot) depth contour. Description of this habitat area- both alternatives   See also  NOAA report "Impacts to Marine Fisheries Habitat from Nonfishing Activities in the Northeastern United States"

What to tell the New England Fishery Management Council at the meeting

AT ISSUE

1.  Our coastal cod's inshore young need specific types of shallow three dimensional habitat to survive their first year.

2. Their prey species also have specific habitat needs.

3. There are both fishery based impacts and land based impacts to these habitats.

4. Fishery management can and has been reducing gear impacts to juvenile cod habitat.  

5. Land-based impacts to inshore juvenile cod habitat have multiple sources, and occur at different intensities at different seasons and locations.

6. While the Council prefers the 20 meter contour as the outer edge of the HAPC, we believe going out to the 10 meter contour will provide sufficient protections for Age Zero cod and be more easy for non fishing citizens to understand and be involved in. One possible alternative is for landbased impact reviews to go out to the 10 meter contour, while fishery impacts to this HAPC to go out to the 20 meter contour. 

WHAT TO DO. Tell the officials at the meeting: Maine will need to prepare.  

For this Inshore Juvenile Atlantic Cod Habitat Area of Particular Concern to be a useful part of the fish habitat protection toolbox, the habitat has to be profiled and state environmental agencies must be trained in how to include consideration of this HAPC in their reviews of coastal discharger licenses, dredging plans and coastal development applications. Friends of Penobscot Bay supports this HAPC and makes the following recommendations.

* Map and evaluate the existing habitat quality within their Inshore Juvenile Cod HAPC areas.  FOPB will be doing this by towing video cameras along the 10 meter contours of Penobscot Bay to get baseline documentation along the centerline of this HAPC.

* Locate & rate the intensity of known and likely future land-based impacts to this HAPC. 

* Provide training to state environmental agency staff, who will be tasked to refer Inshore Juvenile Cod HAPC concerns to federal officials.

* Provide training materials for coastal municipal planning boards to help them understand the Juvenile Cod Habitat Area of Particular Concern within their towns' waters.

GAC CHEMICAL - The VRAP plan means that the company will finally embark on ending the erosion of its wastes into Stockton harbor.     See map of remediation site.  and thenThey will remove sulfur buried next to the shore  trim back and stabilize the eroding shoreline immediately below the old acid pile.  This is only a first step. FOPB will have to guide them along the way to continue this remediation along the rest of their shore.But let's give them an award for doing SOMETHING!

Ron  

Penobscot Bay's, Maine's, shallow cod habitat getting new federal protection. Federal meetings Jan 5, 6, 7th.

Brewer. The New England Fishery Management Council  will hold 3 meetings in Maine on January 5th, 6th and 7th on important new federal regulations protecting the habitat of juvenile coastal cod and other marine fish  from pollution, coastal sprawl and inappropriate fishing tech.

January 5th meeting is a webinar  from 3pm - 5pm.  Register: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/278328207

Call in info: Toll: +1 (646) 307-1706; Access Code: 911-628-108

January 6th from 6-8pm  at Jeff’s Catering and Event Center in Brewer; January 7th, 6-8pm at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland. 

The new  regulations map out a Habitat Area of Particular Concern for Inshore Juvenile Atlantic Cod, extending like a ribbon along the entire New England coast. Beginning at the low tide line, that zone goes out to the 20 meter (66 feet) depth contour. (Area in blue in map)  The regulation lists land-based activities that can harm juvenile cod or their prey in this shallow zone, and sets up a process allowing the community to restrict such activities when needed.  

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POLLUTANTS & LAND BASED ACTIVITIES THAT  HARM JUVENILE COD

Both the Gulf of Maine offshore fishing grounds and 

extending along the entgire new England coast everything canyons of eastern Georges Bank. 




January 5th's meeting will be a webinar from 3pm - 5pm. Anyone who can't make it to Brewer  or Portland, can attend  the online briefing  by Michell Bachman of the New England Fishery Management Council and others over the internet or the phone
Webinar Monday, January 5, 2015

Brewer, ME Tuesday, January 6, 2015

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Jeff’s Catering and Event Center

15 Littlefield Road

Brewer, ME 04412; Phone: (207) 989-1811

Portland, Maine Wednesday, January 7, 2015

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Holiday Inn by the Bay

88 Spring Street

Portland, ME 04101; Phone: (207) 775-2311

http://penbay.org/hapc/nefmc_jvcod_inshore_hapc_2013.jpg

Clamming & lobstering interests were there, and the hookers, harpooners, draggers, gillers and seiners of Maine's finfisheries. A handful of conservation ENGOs and journalists too.

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Listen below to Michelle Bachmann, habitat coordinator, New England Fishery Management Council, describe Omnibus Groundfish Habitat Amendment 2 and its implications for all New England fisheries.  

NEFMC on new coastal habitat protection rules 

Introduction 1 min 35sec

Part 1. 8min 8 sec

Part 2. 5min 45 sec.

Part 3. 11 min.

Part 4. Q&A 7 min.

Part 5 Q&A 6min 58sec.

Part 6. Q&A 10 min 30 sec

Additional Question and answer session  19min 32sec

Impacts to Marine Fish Habitat from Nonfishing Activities in the Northeastern United States

Impacts to Marine Fisheries Habitat from Nonfishing Activities in the Northeastern United States.2008 NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-209

Preface and Introduction
Chapter One:  Technical Workshop on Impacts to Coastal Fisheries Habitat from Nonfishing Activities
Chapter Two:  Coastal Development
Chapter Three:  Energy-related Activities
Chapter Four: Alteration of Freshwater Systems
Chapter Five: Marine Transportation
Chapter Six: Offshore Dredging and Disposal Activities
Chapter Seven: Chemical Effects—Water Discharge Facilities
Chapter Eight:  Physical Effects—Water Intake and Discharge Facilities
Chapter Nine: Agricultures and Silviculture
Chapter Ten: Introduced/Nuisance Species and Aquaculture
Chapter Eleven: Global Effects and Other Impacts
Chapter Twelve: Compensatory Mitigation
Conclusions and Recommendations

Appendix: Attendees of Technical Workshop on Impacts to Coastal Fishery Habitat from Nonfishing Activities

This document is also available as a 339 page pdf

Grimmel Industries' waterfront scrap metal junkard proposal - Peter Taber on why it's a terrible idea for Searsport.

COMING TO A WATERFRONT NEAR YOU?
By Peter Taber, Wild Maine Times.

When many older junked cars are shredded, hard-to-reach mercury switches including mercury switches used as part of brake anti-skid systems are frequently not removed even though this is in violation of state law and the U.S. Clean Water Act. These switches get torn apart in the shredder and their extremely toxic contents spattered freely about the scrap pile.

This accounts for most of the unacceptably high levels of inorganic mercury that for the past dozen years have been detected entering the Piscataqua River at Portsmouth, NH., near Grimmel Industries' waterfront scrap metal piles. This mercury is in addition to unacceptable levels of other scrap metal contaminants — among them polychlorinated biphenyls, aluminum, copper, iron, lead, and zinc — entering the waters of the United States in runoff from Grimmel Industries' Portsmouth operations.

On three occasions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has gone after Grimmel Industries (pdf) imposing civil fines totaling over half a million dollars for repeated instances of toxic waste dumping and reporting violations. The behavior of owner Gary Grimmel of Topsham, Maine, in continuing these violations with an apparent sense of impunity suggests he made a cold-blooded cost-benefit analysis and concluded the EPA fines were merely an acceptable cost of doing business.

What Grimmel appears to have overlooked in making his calculations is that this sociopathic behavior would cause the City of Portsmouth and the Pease Development Authority to disinvite Grimmel Industries. With his lease expired at year's end and the welcome mat in Portsmouth rolled up, Gary Grimmel is looking to a new industrial waterfront community to bring his poisonous commodity. With foreign fossil energy company Sprague Energy as his eager new landlord, that community seems to be Searsport.

The question now is has Searsport's municipal leadership learned anything over the past 40 years from being suckered in by one addle-brained pitch for irresponsible heavy industry after another.

Here's a press release from Conservation Law Foundation, which has been at the forefront in drawing attention to Grimmel Industries' activities in Portsmouth:

Here's a 2011 news article about EPA civil actions against Grimmel Industries in New Hampshire before the company subsequently was denied the opportunity to renew its lease to continue polluting the Piscataqua River:

And here's a portion of the Republican Journal account of last Tuesday's (Dec. 16) Searsport selectmen's meeting at which the board held a public hearing about but tabled action on Grimmel Industries' application to establish a junkyard on Sprague Energy's waterfront property at Mack Point in Searsport:

SELECTMEN TABLE JUNKYARD APPLICATION
By Stephanie Grinnell | Dec 19, 2014
SEARSPORT — There was much discussion but little action on the part of Searsport Selectmen Dec. 16 as they addressed a junkyard application....

Grimmel Industries LLC, a scrap metal recycling company, submitted an application to open a junkyard on Mack Point, an industrial area of town. While selectmen ultimately decided to table the application, citing a need for additional information, there was some discussion.

“I want to do this right, especially since it's the first one,” Selectmen Chairman Aaron Fethke said.
Town Manager James Gillway said there are only a few criteria for selectmen to consider, including proper screening of the operations taking place on 2.5 acres. He said the application submitted by Grimmel states there will be no shredding of automobiles — a noise concern brought up by Selectman Jack Merrithew — and screening should not be an issue as the only abutter wants the business located there.

In its application, Grimmel described the operation as a marine transfer yard and estimated truck traffic to be limited to around 10 trucks, or four rail cars, per day.

Boston resident John Hassey suggested selectmen be wary and conduct due diligence prior to granting a junkyard permit to Grimmel. He noted there have been ongoing noise and environmental issues with the company's Portsmouth, N.H., location.
According to previously published reports, Pease Development Authority declined to renew a contract with Grimmel and requested the company cease operations and clean up its 3-acre site on Piscataqua River before the end of the year.
The development authority and Grimmel originally entered into a contract in Portsmouth in 2002. In 2011, the company was ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency to stop allowing runoff into the river.
According to EPA documents, “ … stormwater discharges from Grimmel's metal scrapyard operation contain metals, suspended solids and chemical oxygen demand which exceed permit benchmarks. Further the stormwater discharges contain mercury and PCBs …” The state of New Hampshire issued a warning to limit consumption of salt water fish as well as lobster, according to the EPA.

It is unclear when selectmen will next address the application.

Coming event: Maine legislator to explain Ocean Acidification Commission results January 7th, Belfast Public Library. Plus Fundy Baykeeper & GAC win.

BELFAST.  Coastal acidification, ocean acidification & remarks from the Fundy Baykeeper on the new Penobscot Baykeeper plan are on the agenda for the January 7, 2015 meeting of Friends of Penobscot Bay. The meeting will be held in the Belfast Public Library's 3rd floor meeting room, from 6pm to 7:30pm.  Free and open to all. 

Representative Mick Devin will discuss and take questions on the new report by Maine's Ocean Acidification Commission that crystallizes the thinking from across the spectrum of Maine governmental, academic, aquaculture fishery and  and other living marine resources interests.  

Representative Devin is co-leader of the commission. He says that the Commission's top priority is to institute regular acid testing of flats and waters along the entire length of the Maine coast.  

Until then, Devin says, regulators have no idea what the hot spots of the Maine coast are that most need remediation. The commission also calls for several other initiatives including stricter enforcement of state pollution laws and hatchery production of softshell clams, growing them in that sheltered environment to a size that can successfully resist shell corrosion from acidic waters and from green crabs, before releasing them into Maine's increasingly acidic and crab-infested flats,  as well as sveral other initiative

Before Representative Devin's talk, Ron Huber of the Friends of Penobscot Bay will briefly describe his group's success at getting longtime coastal acidifier GAC Chemical Corporation to agree to remove acidic wastes from its waterfront and shore up part of an eroding bluff that has sent tons of spent bauxite ore and sulfuric acid  directly into Stockton Harbor over the  past 40 years. The group will commend GAC Chemical for taking this important first step in healing the harbor's industrialized southwestern cove. 

Fundy Baykeeper Matt Abbott will follow Representative Devin. Matt is one of two baykeepers of the Gulf of Maine (along with outgoing Casco Baykeeper Joe Payne). Baykeeper programs vary widely.  

Each is custom-fitted to the unique environment ecology, sociology and economy of that bay, river or lake-keeper. Casco Baykeeper and  Fundy Baykeeper have different but quite effective modus operandis reflecting their different circumstances.

Friends of Penobscot Bay leader Huber said his group envisions having the best of both programs: the research and agency/legislative interaction of the Casco Baykeeper's program and the Fundy Baykeeper's focus on advocacy and oversight of coastal industrialization & sprawl proposals large and small, 

"With a little help from our friends we'll be able to carry out  our missions and steward Penobscot Bay through the ongoing changes in acidity, climate and population," he said.

The event is free and open to the public. All interested in Penobscot Bay including students, bay-dependent businesses, and everyone who loves or cares about Penobscot Bay are urged to attend.

For  more information contact the Friends of Penobscot Bay at 207-691-7485 or coastwatch@gmail.com

Friends of Penobscot Bay: people who care about Maine's biggest bay

News story 2014: GAC finds sulfur in soil on property, submits remediation plan to DEP

From the Belfast Republican Journal

GAC finds sulfur in soil on property, submits remediation plan to DEP

Sulfur identified as source of acidic conditions on nearby shore

By Jordan Bailey | Dec 14, 2014

Photo by: Jordan BaileyThis photo of a picture in the CES investigation summary shows layers of sulfur in a test pit on GAC property.

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SEARSPORT —   .

The company plans to remediate the contaminated area by removing the sulfur, stabilizing an eroding bank, and adding an alkaline buffer to treat groundwater.

Activist group Friends of Penobscot Bay and Dr. Mark Green, environmental science professor at St. Joseph's College, conducted a study of shoreline sediment early this year which yielded similar results, though the organization could not persuade any official channels to investigate further.

DEP had done a visual inspection of the Kidder Point site in October 2013 at the request of the activist group and determined that no investigation, erosion control or remediation was necessary. Environmental Specialist Karen Knuuti, who wrote the memo on the inspection, said in a Dec. 10 interview at the Bangor DEP office that, although she had noted water flowing over an area with sulfur visible on the ground would run off toward an area of discoloration on the shore, it was not clear if the discoloration was caused by the runoff. She said her supervisors determined that further investigation was not necessary.

However, GAC opted to initiate its own investigation and entered into an agreement with DEP through its Voluntary Response Action Program to investigate and clean up any contamination found in exchange for liability protection. The company has recently submitted to DEP an investigation summary, public involvement plan, and remediation and shoreline stabilization plan.

The environmental services company CES Inc., based in Brewer, conducted the comprehensive investigation. According to the investigation summary report, CES reviewed reports of 24 sulfuric acid spills that occurred between 1981 and 1997 and found spills that "occurred prior to GAC acquiring the site [in 1994] [have] the potential to impact the tidal zone.”

CES measured pH of the sediment at 45 locations along the entire shoreline of GAC's property in August. Six locations measured between pH of 2.2 and 3.0. CES identified that area as well as the vicinity of the historic sulfur acid plant as an area of interest for further study.

The low numbers indicate high acidity. A pH of 7 is neutral, and the average pH of seawater is slightly basic at 8.1. Green said in his April 9 report on his study of samples collected by FOPB that sediments with pH measurements in the 6's and below should be considered incapable of supporting any marine life.

CES also sampled soil and groundwater in the area of the historic sulfuric acid plant and found them to be acidic as well. Boring samples were taken to determine soil types and groundwater depths. Sulfur was found in five borings, and groundwater pH was measured as low as 1.73 in one boring.

In October, test pits were excavated up to seven feet deep to determine the extent of the buried sulfur. Sulfur was found at varying depths in the 12 pits on GAC property from 2 to 54 inches, in a layer measuring between 2 and 16 inches thick. CES indicated the presence of this subsurface sulfur layer was previously unknown to GAC.

The investigation summary concluded that the sulfur is the source of the low pH measured and that no other possible acid sources were encountered. It stated the long-term storage of sulfur at the site and its presence in the soil creates conditions for soil bacteria to produce sulfuric acid. The sulfuric acid infiltrates into the soil and groundwater, which flows from northeast to southwest in that area. The study also concluded that low pH conditions are limited to where sulfur is present or to areas immediately downhill of the sulfur because an underlying impermeable clay layer is blocking groundwater from spreading to other areas.

CES recommended "removal of visible sulfur to the extent practical ... and in-situ treatment (i.e. lime application or other soil amendment to increase pH)."

According to the remediation plan, sulfur on GAC property will be excavated and stored in a covered, leak-proof container. The proposed clean-up goal is to leave no more than 4-percent sulfur in the soil and to neutralize the remainder with alkaline product and limestone applied to the soil surface, in accordance with the 2011 “Guidelines for Landfill Disposal of Sulfur Waste and Remediation of Sulfur Containing Soils” publication by the government of Alberta, Canada. Erosion and sediment control will be done before the excavation work begins.

GAC has also proposed shoreline stabilization at an eroding bank near the former sulfur plant and treatment of the low pH groundwater flowing into the intertidal area. The plan outlines excavating from the high water line to the elevated area, adding limestone-based rip-rap and alkaline material, leveling slopes, adding geotextile and planting vegetation.

Friends of Penobscot Bay President Ron Huber is calling for greater public involvement in the GAC's VRAP proceedings, and for the removal of the acidic mud in the intertidal area.

"The idea that the company and its consultants are sufficient stakeholders to arrive at the level of cleanup of a public resource in this harbor is outlandish and a slap in the face to those stakeholders, Friends of Penobscot Bay, to the Town of Searsport Shellfish Committee, and all who care about bay fish and wildlife that will benefit by a reduced acid burden," Huber said in a press release.

GAC did seek input on the remediation plan from Green, who also serves on the state Ocean Acidification Commission. Green did not recommend dredging in the intertidal area. In a Nov. 13 email to GAC, which CES included in the public communication plan, he wrote: “I think removing the source material, applying the alkalinity buffer to treat the groundwater, and stabilizing the slope of the problem area represents the perfect remediation approach. I don't think dredging the intertidal area where low pH pore waters were originally found is appropriate and, at least in my opinion, would add nothing to the remediation plan. In fact, dredging this region would be detrimental, could easily create a whole range of other issues, and will not do anything to rectify the problem.... In my opinion, once [the sulfur is] gone, the acidity problems of the intertidal will quickly correct themselves.”

The public communication plan states that GAC will provide VRAP documents to the Augusta and Bangor DEP offices and to the town of Searsport where they are available for public viewing; and that the company will notify the town manager when remediation activities are to begin and when they are complete.

GAC President David Colter was not available for comment Friday, Dec. 12.

The Searsport Selectmen will discuss the plans at their Dec. 16 meeting.

Related articles:

Study finds acidic mud at Kidder Point

Activists continue to push for official investigation of Kidder Point erosion

GAC to voluntarily test samples of shoreline sediment

Trawlers and North Atlantic deepwater corals don't mix!

In 2002,  a Canadian trawl survey dragger inadvertently or uncaringly pulled its net through part of  the Romey's Peak Coral Conservation Area, located in between Browns Bank and Georges Bank (see map) A  stand of primnoan coral was  quite impacted.

Indigenous Peoples' Place Names for the lands and waters of the area now termed "Waldo" and "Knox" counties. A 1962 compilation by John C. Huden

From "Indian Place Names of New England, Compiled 1962 by John C Huden, Heye Foundation. New York Museum of the American Indian

WALDO COUNTY INDIAN PLACE NAMES
Agoncy a mythical Indian place near the mouth of Penobscot River, Waldo County, Me. Huron, "an island." Anciently Aguncia,

Aguahassideck Fort Point, Waldo Co, Me. Abnaki, "landing place for canoes." also where otters slid into the water; "otter-slides."

Aguahega Damariscove Island, Waldo County, Me. Abnaki, "a landing place" for canoes.

Aguncia Waldo County, Me. Probably Huron, "an island." See Agoncy.

Ammacongan Falls, St. George River, Waldo County, Me. Abenaki, ''fish drying and curing" station. Variant: Ammon-congin.

Awassawamkeak Sears Island, Waldo County, Me. Abnaki, "the shining sandy beach and beyond."

Catamawawa North Branch of Marsh River, Waldo County, Me. Abenaki, "very rough" ? (k'tamahaga).

Cheemahn, Long Island, Waldo County, Me.,

Edalitehwakeelamook. Bald Hill Cove, Waldo County, Me. Abnaki, "place where they run uphill" trial of strength & endurance.

Essick, Stockton Harbor, Waldo County, Me. Abenaki, "clam place." These were softshell clams used for baking and steaming. (Wabanaki spelling: Essq)

Heagan Mountain, Waldo County, Me. Pennacook "a dwelling." Possibly named for chief Sampson Hegan, 1698.
Kanakolus Bay, Waldo County, Me. Abenaki, "long flame"?

Kinabsk atnek , Mount Waldo, Waldo Co, Me. Abnaki, "steep rocky mountain."

Kisquash,     Little River in Waldo County 

K'tchi-peskwahonda Fort Knox, Waldo County, Me. Abnaki, "big guns."

Kwikwimes-witicook Marsh River, Waldo Co, Me. Abnaki, "black duck stream."

Madagamus Hill, Waldo County, Me. Abnaki, "snowshoe tracks" left by Glooskap when he jumped across Penobscot Bay, in pursuit of a moose calf.

Mosemadage Castine, Waldo County, Me. Abnaki, "snow shoe marks." Spelled also Mosemadega.

Ooniganissek Cape Jellison Neck, Waldo County, Me. Abenaki, "at the short carry." Also Ouinigansek

Opeche Stream in Waldo County, Me. Chippewa, "a robin."

Paquatanee Waldo County, Me. AVnaki, "far from us," off the beaten track, out of the way.

Passagas-sa-waukeag at head of Belfast Bay, Waldo County, Me. Malecite, "place for spearing sturgeon by torch light."

Passawaukeag Lake, Waldo County, Me. Malecite, "place of the sturgeon."

Penopsquacook Waldo County, Me. Abnaki, ''steep, rocky place."

Pitow baygook Long Island, Waldo County, Me. Abnaki, "be- tween two channels;" also given as Pitau-begwi-menahanuk, "the island between two channels."

Quantabacook Lake, Waldo County, Me. Abenaki, "plenty of game (fur-bearing) animals."?

Quontabacook Lake, Waldo County, Me. Abenaki, "plenty of (muskrat or beaver) at this pond."

Sacasaaki River, Waldo County, Me. Abenaki, "place near a small outlet," or "land near a brook" ?

Sheepscot Pond, River and Village, Waldo County, Me. Abnaki, "many rocky channels." Also, Shepscooke, Shippscutt, etc. Sheganishkachoke see Shaganiscathoke.

Tuck Mountain, Waldo County, Me. Doubtful; if Indian, probably Abnaki, "a tree." But more likely from English.

Wakalosen Fort Knox, Waldo County, Me. Abnaki, "rocks in a circle;" hence an enclosure, a fort.
Wasa-umkeag Sears Island, Waldo County, Me. Abnaki, "at the shining sandy beach." Also Wasumkeag and Wassamkeag.

Winnecook Village, Waldo County, Me. Abenaki, "at the portage."

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KNOX COUNTY INDIAN PLACE NAMES
Acquehadongonock Point, Knox Co, Me. Anaki,"place where canoes are slid in and out of water." Canoe-harbor at fishing place

Ahquanahaganoc Knox County, Me. Abnaki, "a sweat bath."

Bedabek Knox County, Me. Malecite, "head of the bay" at Rockland. Variant, Bedabedec.

Catawamkeak shores of Knox County, Me., near Rockland.

Chebogardinac Knox County, Me. Penobscot, "at the high hill."

Cheouanasag Falls, Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "at the big portage."

Chickawaukee Lake, Knox County, Me. This is not a genuine Indian name, but a composite "good, sweet, fresh, or drinkable."

Emmetinic Matinicus Island, Knox County, Me. This old form  appears in the Jesuit Relations, 1611. See Matinicus.

Kaskoonaguk Mark Island, Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "crane island."

Katawamkeag. Lermond's Cove, Knox Co Me. Abnaki, "the great landing place," or "much sand exposed when the tide is out."

Konesanouskek St. George Peninsula, Knox County, Me. Abnaki, "at the long rocky place."

K't-ahguantek the Grand Landing Place, Knox County, Me. Abnaki, "the principal landing place."

Ma-adameg Falls, Knox County, Me. Abnaki, "alewives place."

Mada-Kamigosek modern Indian name for Camden, Knox County, Me. Penobscot-Abnaki, "big ridge place."
Madam Bettox Mountain, Knox County, Me. Abnaki?  "alewives' pond," Chickawaukee. Also Medambettox, Medambetek.

Magwin tegwak Lincolnville Beach, Knox County, Me. Abnaki, "choppy seas."

Majum-quassebem Pond, Knox County, Me. Abnaki, "worthless (or bad) pond."

Mastomquoog Island, Knox County, Me. Abnaki, "the place of  big rocks" ?

Matinicus Island and Rock, Knox County, Me. The largest of a group of islands well out to sea. Abnaki, "far-out island."

Megunticook Lake, Knox County, Me. Micmac or Malecite, "big mountain harbor."

Menannah Bay and Island, Knox County, Me. Abnaki, "the island, out at sea."

Meniekec St. George Island, Knox Co, Me. Abnaki, "at the place of the sheltering island".Windbreak for canoes. Also Meniquet.

Meskeekwagamasic Black Pond, Knox County, Me. Anaki, "grassy pond," or "pond with grassy banks."

Metinic Island, Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "far out island." Variant, Metineag.

Monhegan Island, Knox County, Me. Malecite? Micmac? "out to sea island." Variant, Monliagon.

Moniecook Barter Island, Knox County, Me. Micmac, "at the island."

Moratiggon Island, Knox County, Me. Probably Old Abnaki,  "passage, or strait" between the island and the mainland.

Murranook Island, Knox County, Me. Malecite, "the island." See Monhegan.

Namdamassuag'im Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "sucker lake."

Necotok location unknown, perhaps in Knox County, Me?.

Negunisis Knox County, Me. Abnaki, contraction and modification of Ouinigansees, "small (or short) portage." Also Negunsis.

Negunticook Camden Harbor, Knox County, Me. Micmac, "big mountain harbor."

Nehumkee or Nehumkike Several places in York, Cumberland, Knox, Penobscot, Kennebec, Counties, Me. Abnaki, "eel place"

Nequassabemasis Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "small pond."

Nequassebem Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "a pond or lake."

Netakamikus Knox County, Me. Penobscot- Abnaki, "big ridge." Variant, Netiikhamakoos.

Nollidgewanticook River, Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "place above the falls in the river" ?

Nusalk Chunangan maybe on Penobscot Bay, Knox County, Me. Perhaps Abnaki, "village near the big fish weir." Nutskamongan. Poguassek Knox County, Me. Abnaki, "moonlight," or "moonlit place." See also Pok-o -moonshine.

Pudjquenssis-ak Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "abode of the powerful sorceress." ? Variant, Pukdjinskwes.

Quesquitcumegek Ridge Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "long carry over high land," or "long ridge." Also Quesquitcumgee.

Quisquamego Knox County, Me. Abnaki, "long ridge," or "long peninsula." Also Kwesahkamegus.

Raggertask Island, Ragged Island, Knox County, Me. Abenaki? Micmac? possibly from naghetobsk, "island rocks." ?

Saquid mouth of St. George River, Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "the outlet'.

Segocket mouth of St. George River, Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "at the outlet." Variants Segoquet, Segocket, Segohquet.

Sennebec or Sennibec Pond, Knox County, Me. Abnaki, "rocks in the pond."

Sooneybeag Pond, Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "stones in pond."

Squitcomegek Falls, Knox County, Me. Abnaki, "at the long ridge.''

Tahanock Knox County, Me. Micmac, "toward the open sea;"  this is on Simanca's Map, 1610.

Torube Pond, Knox County, Me. Old Abnaki, "snapping-turtle," or (along the coast) a large sea-turtle, a terrapin.

Tsabakwa Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "I hide my provisions," or, "I cache my food."

Tzawapa Knox County, Me. Old Abnaki, "a crossing place in a river or stream," that is, "a ford." Also Tzawipi.

Wawenock Knox, Lincoln and Sagadahoc Counties, Me. Abnaki, "bay country" or "inlet places." Until 1730 ( ?) populated by

Walinakiak, "people of the bay country" Moved to Canada. Last known Walinakiak speaker died 1919 in Becancour, Quebec,

Wakalosen Fort Knox, Waldo County, Me. Abnaki, "rocks in a circle;" hence an enclosure, a fort.

Wedebegek Knox County, Me. Malecite? Micmac? "head of the bay," the beginning of Penobscot Bay.

Weskeag Creek, Knox County, Me. See Wessaweskeag.

Wessaweskeag Knox County, Me. Abenaki, "tidal creek at the  peninsula." Now Weskeag. Variant, Wessamesskek.

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GAC VRAP Application request assistance. August 26, 2014

GAC VRAP Conceptual Site Model for cleanup of the site

GAC VRAP Site spills history & subsurface Sampling Plan

GAC Chemical VRAP site online documents archive

Key August & November 20124 documents of  GAC Chemical's VRAP remediation application.  its Kidder Point property in Stockton Harbor
Pursued under Maine's Voluntary Response Action Program.T  Note: Friends of Penobscot Bay  & our existing site documentation

AUGUST 2014 VRAP  DOCUMENTS

1. GAC Chemical Corp VRAP 8/26/14 Application &_request assistance

2. GAC Chemical VRAP: 8/27/14. CES Cover Letter of VRAP application.

3. GAC Chemical VRAP 8/27/14 Summary of Investigations (2 pg)

OCTOBER 2014 VRAP DOCUMENTS
4. GAC Chemical VRAP Investigations Summary Report (14 pages) 

5. GAC Chemical VRAP Plan CES Remediation & Shoreline Stabilization Plan (12 pg)

6. OCTOBER 2014 Conceptual Site Model for Site and Cleanup

NOVEMBER 2014 VRAP DOCUMENTS
7. GAC Chemical  VRAP Spills History & Subsurface Plan

8. GAC Chemical VRAP 11/13/14 Public Communication Plan (4 pgs),  

10.GAC Chemical VRAP 11/13/14_Dr. Mark Green email to GAC Consultant CES 

2003 DOCUMENT IN VRAP APPLICATION

11. GAC Chemical VRAP 2003 Deed Restriction, Certificate of Completion 2/12/03 (cover page only)(1 pg )