Maine Legislature finishes work on windpower reform bills

Here's a summary of the windpower reform  related bills that the Maine legislature considered during the just ending 2012/2013 session

Source  Friends of Maine Mountains

The 126th Legislature cleared away the last of bills that proposed to make changes to Maine's wind power siting law. We're in our sixth year of a law that has been problematic ever since it was enacted, but the Legislature has once again refused to make any meaningful changes to it. Following are a few notes on the results of each of these bills.

LD 616, An Act To Amend the Expedited Permitting Area for Wind Energy Development under the Jurisdiction of the Maine Land Use Planning Commission.
STATUS: Committed back to the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology.
LD 616 would reform to the 2008 Wind Energy Act. It received a bipartisan majority report from the EUT Committee and passed the House of Representatives with relative ease. However,  the Maine Senate mkajority leadership voted to send it back to the Energy and Untilities Committee, instead of lettering rather than allowing the Senate to vote on the bill, the majority leadership moved to send it back to the EUT Committee. The motion passed on a largely partisan vote with only one Democratic legislator voting to address the issue in this session.

It was a purely strategic move to avoid any chance of making a change to current wind power siting law. Energy Office Director, Patrick Woodcock, said, "It was another tactic to retain the status quo."

When the legislature reconvenes for the second session, it's probable that there will be pressure to kill the bill's provisions or at least make them more wind industry-friendly.

Click here to see breakdowns for the House and Senate votes. Also, please consider thanking those legislators who cast votes in favor of LD 616.

"Rural citizens lose battle to have a say in wind tower rezoning" - Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting

LD 247, An Act To Amend the Law Governing Appeals of Final Agency Action on Applications Concerning Wind Energy Development.
STATUS: Dead. Unanimous Ought Not To Pass in EUT Committee.

LD 385, An Act To Improve Wind Energy Development Permitting.
STATUS: Passed to be enacted. Not yet signed by the governor as of 6/24/13.
From a practical standpoint, the original version of this bill proposed few changes that would have been noticeable under current patterns of development. The version that passed was amended under the guidance of wind industry representatives and does even less than the original. LD 385 originated with groups advocating wind development including the Natural Resources Council of Maine and Maine Audubon. These groups were among those that crafted the current law that has been so troublesome.

LD 1061, An Act To Regulate Meteorological Data-gathering Towers in Maine.
STATUS: Dead. Unanimous Ought Not To Pass in EUT Committee.

LD 1147, An Act To Protect Maine's Scenic Character.
STATUS: Referred to Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology.
In an unusual move, the Environment and Natural Resources Committee voted to refer this bill to the EUT Committee after the public hearing had already taken place. This means the EUT Committee never heard the testimony given by supporters of the bill. Several ENR Committee members objected to the Committee majority's action on the grounds that it was unfair to the supporters of the citizens who brought the bill to the Legislature. The bill will be passed into the next session.

LD 1323, An Act Regarding Wind Power Siting in the Unorganized Territory.
STATUS: Referred to Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology.
This bill followed the same path as LD 1147 above.

LD 1325, Resolve, To Place a Temporary Suspension on Permitting of Certain Expedited Grid-scale Wind Energy Developments.
STATUS: Dead. Divided report from EUT Committee. Killed by Senate and House votes.

LD 1375, An Act To Enhance Maine's Economy and Environment.
STATUS: Dead. Unanimous Ought Not To Pass in EUT Committee.

LD 1434, An Act To Clarify the Laws Governing Noise from Wind Turbines
STATUS: Carried over to next session.
The parties involved in this bill will be attempting to work out a solution before the next session in order to eliminate the need for the bill.

LD 1471, An Act Authorizing the Board of Environmental Protection To Modify a License for a Wind Energy Development.
STATUS: Dead. Unanimous Ought Not To Pass in EUT Committee.

 

Thank you.

CLF got GAC to Drop Acid back in 2002

The Coastal Waters Project and the Conservation Law Foundation both took on General Alum  when evidence of at least three serious pollution problems emerged.  Only one was resolved. The failure to resolve the other two warrants an effort to make state and federal permits for GAC's industrial expansion plan contingent on  dealing with them, by GAC creating and implementing a shoreline remediation plan and an intertidal flat remediation plan to end those two pollution sources.

Background  the GAC Chemical plant on Kidder Point (photo) in Stockton Harbor has badly polluted shoreline conditions. Read history of industry on Kidder Point 

The GAC Chemical facility  is only the latest in a series of chemical & fertilizer companies that have operated there since the early 20th century. See 1998 GAC letter to DEP Bangor and its attached chart of results of aerial reconnaisance of site 1937 to 1990. 


CLF's 2001-2002  sues GAC Chemical. In 2001, CLF's then-attorney Roger Fleming reviewed the outfall records of GAC Chemical and discovered persistent ongoing violations of the company's discharge permit, specifically unlawfully low pH of outfall effluent
See a 3/27/98 Notice of Violation  sent to GAC by DEP, and the company's 4/20/98 Response to DEP

. On October 3, 2001 CLF filed a Notice of Intent to Sue under the Clean Water Act. On February 11, 2002, CLF filed this complaint.  Eight months later, on October 9, 2002a settlement was reached.   See: CLF Reports:Stopping General Alum & Chemical Corporation's pollution of Stockton Harbor   

PRESENT SITUATION
The photograph in the above linked Stopping General Alum & Chemical page illustrates graphically three of the ongoing pollution problems on the GAC Chemical shore  The silvery mud in the foreground is acidic bauxite tailings that have eroded into the intertidal flat from a predecessor company's shorefront dump since at least 1957. Midground: see an eroding shoreline waste dump whence the bauxite came. The abandoned tank in the background has supplied its own multicolored wastes into another part of the same cove's beach and intertidal flat.  

Photos from March 2013 site visit (unless otherwise noted)
Shoreline # 1  Eroding sites March 2013.  Here and here  and here. Dumped ceramic grinding parts (1) Here (May 2012)
Shoreline # 2  Shorefront landfills March 2013.  Here and Here and Here  Dumped ceramic stirring parts (2) Here

Abandoned structures 
Old import pipeline from offshore dock to now demolished plant Here and here
Abandoned pumphouse with two outfalls inside. Here and  here (closeup) *** 1998 Aerial of dischargefrom"abandoned" pumphouse
Abandoned closed outfall catch basin Here  ** April 8,1998 BDN story on waste buildup in basin that we ID'd and forced cleanup of.
Abandoned building w/ abandoned tank Here
Tainted flats below abandoned building & tank  From land *** from land (2) *** From air  from air (2) *** from air (3)

Agency Actions to date
On  April 16, 2004  two DEP marine ecologists sampled the mud.  Low levels of biodiversity was found. Ending erosion  of wastes by trimming bluff back and sodding it over was suggested but not carried out.  Report by John Sowles *** Report by Lee Doggett

Meeting with the Company

Last year  we took Colter and his CES environmental consultant on two walka along the worst part of his company's shores.  There, exposed strata of acidic  alum production wastes dumped along the shore in the 1960s and 70s  have eroded into the harbor, adding a silvery color to the mud in the clamflats, Nearby, red and black leacheate rises up through the gravelly beach and into the mud, with the apparently culpable derelict building & tank rising above it

We urged Colter to start by removing or cutting back and resodding the waste piles that are leaking onto the harbor's shores and adjacent clamflats. Then, we suggested, at least an acre of contaminated mudflat should be dredged up or dug up and landfilled, possibly onsite in the company's existing landfill.

Mr. Colter was enthusiastic at first: He wrote after GAC's enviro consultant CES gave him an update:

"I recently received options from CES for improvements to the shoreline to address erosion concerns.  We are working through the cost options to decide what will be best.  From a budgetary perspective, this will have to be a 2013 project.  I am pleased with what CES has proposed.  Once we have the cost pieces pulled together we will approach the DEP to determine the steps to move forward.   I will keep you posted." 

That was 7 months ago. No postings from Colter yet.

PROPOSED ACTION  Leverage mitigation as quid pro quo for company expansion plan.
Last September GAC  applied to the Searsport Planning Board to add an additional chemical plant to their property. The new facility would create "plastic pigments"  and would be a joint venture with Mexican chemical firm Dalegip America. See media coverage  here and here

We would like the new facility's state  or federal permits to be conditional on GAC creating and implementing a shoreline remediation plan and an intertidal flat remediation plan.  The eroding shore bluff, bauxited clam flat, and leacheate-drenched beach areas are all unlicensed discharge violations of the Clean Water Act.

Whether or not cleaup is tied to their expansion plans, if CLF did a site walk along the intertidal shore first without, then with, GAC's David Colter, you may be able to  convince him that remediating his site's historic shore waste problems -as responsible party- needs to be a top priority.

Colter has run a tight ship.  MDEP records show that the GAC Chemical facility has greatly improved its pollution controls since the 1990s. The company is locally well liked; it has a large local payroll and contributes to civic betterment projects.  Thus it is a disappointment that Colter seems to have a problem keeping his promise to deal with the facility's shoreline waste dumps.  CLF could help nudge the company along in the right direction

Is Sears Island threatened by bond bills?

Sears Island-threatening bond bills? 

Take a look at the bonds marked with a little orange square  on pages pages 3, 5 and 7 from the Maine legislature's 2013 transportation bond package.  Taken from state's full bond list

They are:
* LD 942 ($9.5 million), "...funds for industrial rail facility..funds for ports and marine facilities."

LD 1052 ($20 million),  "...reconfigure, repair, maintain and improve the intermodal structure of the state, including trail, truck, marine and air transportation modes..."

LD 1095 ($19 million) ,  "..funds for facilities or equipment related to ports, harbors, marine transportation...."

LD 1492 ($9 million)   "...Funds for public transportation facilities and equipment upgrades, including but not limited to fixed route bus service and ferries servicing islands..."


It may be that these transpo bonds still need to get another vote from the appropriations committee, but it will likely be the whole bond pack with the port bond cash in it. 

The bonds don't specifically say "Sears Island" but we know it is one of the chief targets of money for  "ports and marine facilities" or "marine transportation faclities" that
 the bonds would pay for.

Maine Legislature passes GMO labeling bill LD 718

earlier this week...

LD 718—"An Act to Protect Maine Food Consumers' Right to Know about Genetically Engineered Food and Seed Stock"—passed with flying colors in the Maine House on Tuesday, and the Maine Senate yesterday!

The bill is now bound for Governor Paul LePage's desk with momentum behind it. Thank you for making your voice heard; your signature was crucial to the GMO labeling bill's passage in the Maine Legislature. Stay tuned for new actions you can take to encourage Governor LePage to sign the GMO labeling bill into law so that Maine people can know what they're eating.

Federal & State Ocean Planners held public meeting at Rockland Library June 4th: AUDIO recordings

On June 4, 2013, the Rockland Library hosted a public meeting  by representatives of the Northeast Regional Ocean Council.  NROC was created  by the federal Ocean Policy Task Force  set up to implement  Executive Order 13547 "Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes".  The Rockland meeting was the last in a series held around New England.
Listen below to the presentations that were given.(mp3s) 

The Task Force's goal: developing a national  policy that stimulates: 

"Effective Decision Making", "Healthy Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems:, and   "Compatibility Among Past, Current and Future Ocean Uses"  Those goals are detailed in their 3 page draft ocean planning goals paper (pdf) Read more about the Ocean Policy Task Force and its purpose in hosting this event, below the recordings. 

1. Introduction by Kathleen Leyden  3min38sec 
2. Meeting attendees identified. 8min 47sec
3. Meeting facilitator intro. 2min 12sec
4. Betsy Nicholson, NOAA. 13min38sec
5. Betsy Nicholson Q&A. 5min 31sec
6. John Weber, NROC. Part 1. 9min 12sec
7. John Weber, NROC Part 2. 9min 26sec  
8. Betsy Nicholson NOAA 9min 57sec
9 Betsy Nicholson NOAA. 3min 46sec 
10. Closing remarks. 3min 38sec


Background: On July 19, 2010 President Obama signed  Executive Order 13547 --Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes.  The executive order implements the recommendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force (pdf) The task force  is "composed of  24 senior-level officials from executive departments, agencies, and offices across the Federal government and led by the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)."

EO 13547 makes it "the policy of the United States" for ocean related agencies to meet ten standards in their permit and license decision making. Each agency must 

• (i) protect, maintain, and restore the health and biological diversity of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources;
• (ii) improve the resiliency of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems, communities, and economies;
• (iii) bolster the conservation and sustainable uses of land in ways that will improve the health of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems;
• (iv) use the best available science and knowledge to inform decisions affecting the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes, and enhance humanity's capacity to understand, respond, and adapt to a changing global environment;
• (v) support sustainable, safe, secure, and productive access to, and uses of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes;
• (vi) respect and preserve our Nation's maritime heritage, including our social, cultural, recreational, and historical values;
• (vii) exercise rights and jurisdiction and perform duties in accordance with applicable international law, including respect for and preservation of navigational rights and freedoms, which are essential for the global economy and international peace and security;
• (viii) increase scientific understanding of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems as part of the global interconnected systems of air, land, ice, and water, including their relationships to humans and their activities;
• (ix) improve our understanding and awareness of changing environmental conditions, trends, and their causes, and of human activities taking place in ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes waters; and
• (x) foster a public understanding of the value of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes to build a foundation for improved stewardship.

(More information coming.)

Saturday June 1st Save Our Shoal! Noon at Sears Island Ghost Port, 2pm on the causeway

 "Save Our Shoal!" says fish conservation group.

SEARSPORT. On Saturday June 1st Penobscot Bay area citizens concerned about the effect the Searsport Harbor expansion dredging plan could have on groundfish, lobsters and human heath will be pounding the drum at noon at the Ghost Port -abandoned port site on Sears Island. Click for map of island ghostport   At 2pm activists from Friends of Penobscot Bay will hold a talk and press conference on the Sears Island causeway.  All are welcome.

Proposed outer harbor dredging area (center of photo)

ISSUE: Opponents call the expansion dredging plan misguided and a problem for Penobscot Bay's groundfish, lobsters, taxpayers and human health. (Map of dredge plan, with shoal) 

BOONDOGGLE. Critics say the harbor dredge expansion plan  is not needed for Searsport's present and future shipping needs, and is  actually part of another federal and state push to open shipping access to Sears Island.

For the dredge expansion  makes no economic sense for Penobscot Bay's  present-day or future shipping needs.  Federal and state agencies reviewing the ill-fated  DCP Midstream LPG terminal plan determined that Searsport Harbor would accomodate the gas giant's supertankers with NO  no additional harbor dredging needed.

As far as port development on Sears Island, a state funded worldwide survey of port interests several years ago found zero interest in building a port on Sears island.

More realistically, the proposed expansion dredging is a boondoggle to benefit dredging businesses. Would Prock Marine get the contract?  Pretty likely; they do a lot of Penobscot Bay dredging.

The Friends of Penobscot Bay call the Army Corps of Engineers Searsport Harbor expansion dredging plan  "Dredging a ghost harbor for a ghost port." 

THREAT TO FISH

Not only will it waste taxpayers dollars, the expansion dredging  will endanger Penobscot Bay's groundfish recovery.  Maps of the  dredging  show it would dig out the last of the shoal between Searsport Harbor and Sears Island. The Sears Island Shoal is well recognized by state and federal fisheries agencies as important habitat for juvenile and larval Atlantic Cod. Taking an 890,000 cubic yard  bite out of the shoal is going to reduce the quality of that nursery

In fact, it was the presence of this fragile shallow ecosystem with its eelgrass and kelp that  forced Angus King in 1996 to withdraw his Sears Island port plan. Listen to King conceding defeat on MPBN (short mp3)

THREAT TO LOBSTERS AND HUMAN HEALTH

Mercury is known to be present both near the Mack Point docks and out on the Searsport Shoals shoal's old sediments. The toxic metal will be released into the water column during the act of dredging and when dumping the dredge spoils further down the bay.

Both actions will result in elevated methyl mercury in the water column that travel with prevailing currents and settle in a toxic patina over the bottom.  

Lobsters living and eating in those waters will almost certainly show a sharp increase in methyl mercury in tail and claw meat.  According to a federal court ordered study of mercury contamination of the river and upper bay there are already lobsters in the upper bay with mercury levels in tail and claw meat exceeding state and federal mercury advisory thresholds for seafood consumption. 

Listen to speakers at a September 13, 2007, DMR-hosted Public Info Meeting on Cianbro's proposal to dredge Penobscot River next to the defunct Eastern Fine Paper site - some of whose mercury-rich sediments had already fouled upper Penobscot Bay according to the study. It happened.

THE TOXIC TRIANGLE

"I know fishermen who collects these samples", Huber said,  "They've identified a toxic triangle of mercury tainted sediments in the upper bay, stretching between Islesboro's Marshall Point,  the Sears Island bell buoy and  the DMP buoy in the center of the upper bay. The proposed expansion dredge site?  Right in the heart of the this deadly triangle."

MERCURY IN BAY FOG

Nor will  only waterbreathing species imbibe this neurotoxin, Huber warned. New research shows that marine methylmercury that reaches shallow waters can transfer quickly and efficiently into the microdroplets of spring and summer bay fogs. 

In addition to  coating every leaf in our foggy coastal forests and island gardens with a light glaze of methyl mercury,  the substance will be also absorbed by the lungs of airbreathing animals in those fogs - including our own species.  

"The levels are small, but mercury adds up"  Huber said. 

The Friends of Penobscot Bay called on the Army Corps of Engineers to opt out of setting this dangerous substance loose in Penobscot Bay.  

WHAT TO DO

"Keep it buried." said Huber. "You'll keep the bay's lobsters and people safe from mercury poisoning, and the taxpayers safe from paying for a ghos

June 1st the state of Penobscot Bay - a teach-in on dredging, fishing, lobstering, tourism and governance.

On Saturday June First, from 2  to 4pm, join the Friends of Penobscot Bay   several bay area legislators and many others at an information gathering event on the Sears Island causeway, to consider the state of Penobscot Bay's shipping, lobstering, recreational fishing, tourism, and other bay-dependent businesses, and the health of the bay's environment.  

Whether you can stay a few minutes or for hours,  (or even by speakerphone: 207-593-9242 after 2pm on the first)  your insights and suggestions will make a difference

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TOPICS INCLUDE

SHIPPING. Searsport hosts a bulk products and petroleum.  Rockland sends cement to greater New England by barge. Modular industrial machinery comes down from Orrington,  Forest products from Bucksport.  Every summer hundreds of sailboats ply the bay.  What sort of additional commercial industrial and recreational vessels do we want to attract to  our bay's many harbors and ports? 

FISHING. Is the bay producing more fish & shellfish or less? Where did the mussels go?  Is global change bringing southern species like blue crabs up to Penobscot Bay? Will century-old sediments buried in the bay floor be lieverated into the water column by the Searsport Harbor expansion plan, taintinjg the bay's seafood with methyl mercury? 

TOURISM: Are the bay's scenic vistas  by land and by sea being conserved?  How clear are the state's  processes for protecting unspoiled scenic views that attract tourists and their dollars?

AGENCIES: How well are environmental and fishery agencies conserving Penobscot Bay resources? Are they careful or are they  rubber stamping to placate?

LEGISLATURE: What has the legislature passed  this year that affects Penobscot Bay?  For good or ill?

NGOs: What is their scorecard on protecting and conserving Penobscot Bay natural resources?  Island Institute,  NRCM. Sierra Club etc.

CRYSTAL BALL  What can the scallopers of Stonington,  the mills of Bucksport, the energy businesses and tourism resorts of Searsport, the windjammers of Camden, the lobstermen  of Port Clyde  and all the rest of those who depend on Penobscot Bay look forward to in the next five years? The next fifty years?

Please attend on June 1st event on the Sears Island causeway  (even by speakerphone: call 207-593-9242)

Maine's biggest bay depends on it!

June 1st: help Stop the Toxic Dredge Spoil Ring around Penobscot Bay at Sears Island ghost port - by kayak, foot and boat!

Do you reject the Army Corps' proposed mercury-liberating "dredge of dreams" plan to "spoil"  upper Penobscot Bay?   You should!

On Saturday June 1st,  join other Penobscot Bay defenders at and in front of the ghost port on Sears Island, overlooking the Wasumkeag Shoal. Directions: Park on the causeway. Walk island road to ghost port.. Or walk norhtwest shore to ghost port.  Boaters' paddlers: come to the Sears Island Buoy in front of the ghost port at noon.

AT ISSUE: If Army Corps of Engineers has its way, then Prock Marine dredge gear will take an 800,000 cubic yard bite out of this shoal, Penobscot Bay's most valuable fish nursery.

This to create a ghost harbor for the Sears Island ghost port!  Watch bayhugger boats trace the perimeter of the proposed Big Diggah.

Bring your skills, energies, ideas to bear on the Task: keeping the sunken Mordor of the 19th and 20th century - lurking down in the muck beneath outer Searsport Harbor -  from rising up to cast loose a deadly ring of methylmercury around Penobscot Bay! 

For, should the Army Corps prevail, then, mercury enriched silt plumes dislodged by the dredgers' jaws will  rising off Wassumkeag and spread throughout Searsport Harbor, and to Belfast Bay, leaving a patina of the deadly metal dusting the seaweed, clams, the lobsterbait in trap, the lobsters - and  lobster eaters.

Meanwhile, mercurious spoils dumped onto the Rockland Disposal Site will, under the sway of  prevailing deep bay currents, be sent streaming back north along both sides of Islesboro, back to Belfast, to Searsport, to Castine; coming together in the shallows of the upper bay.  

So say those who fish the upper bay and know it well.   Should the Corps get approval and then dump into the site between Islesboro and Belfast instead... - the mind boggles.

Nor will  only our waterbreathing cousins imbibe this neurotoxin.   New research shows that marine methylmercury that reaches shallow waters  transfers quickly and efficiently into the microdroplets of spring and summer bay fogs. 

There it can transfer to seabirds' lungs - and yours. As well as every leaf in  our foggy coastal forests and island homes and gardens.

Keep the Army Corps of Engineers from loosing this deadly menace  upon Penobscot Bay.  Already methyl mercury levels of some upper bay lobster claws and tails  have risen above state and federal food safety notification  levels,  

One ring that could sink the hard gained marine sustainability certification of Maine lobster, by requiring mercury warning labels on live and processed lobsters from frozen tails to lobster rolls and stew.

One ring that, science shows, would bring methylmercury  to all airbreathers of the upper bay.

The Army Corps of Engineers hopes to get the okay this summer.

Some things don't change.

The people are rising against this needless dangerous plan.  

Got creative? Express your self -  at the ghost port

Licensed dischargers into Penobscot Bay. Licenses and enforcement histories

Licensed dischargers into Penobscot Bay & enforcement histories Saint George (Atlantic Ocean	East Wind Incorporated (PDF) (2 pp, 2MB)	ME0036773	07/18/2011
Saint George (Long Cove)	Sea Hag Seafood, Inc. (PDF) (34 pp, 2.2MB) Enforcement	ME0037346	10/03/2012

St. George (Long Cove)

Great Eastern Mussel Farms, Inc.  Now: Sea Hag (PDF)(42 pp, 2.1MB) Enforcement

ME0023124

11/08/2007

Owls Head (Atlantic Ocean)	Crescent Beach Association (PDF) (40 pp, 2.8MB) Enforcement	ME0036781	11/30/2010
Owls Head (Atlantic Ocean)	Crescent Beach Association (PDF) (30 pp, 1.3MB)	ME0036781	11/29/2005

Rockland (Atlantic Ocean)	Rockland POTW, City of (PDF) (25 pp, 216K)  Enforcement	ME0100595	11/21/2009
Rockland (Atlantic Ocean)	Rockland POTW, City of (PDF) (84 pp, 229K)	ME0100595	12/21/2007
Rockland (Rockland Harbor)	FMC Biopolymer (PDF) (40 pp, 2.7MB) Enforcement	ME0000400	12/04/2012
Rockland (Rockland Harbor)	FMC Biopolymer (PDF) (31 pp, 1.6MB)	ME0000400	10/09/2007
Rockland (Rockland Harbor)	Rockland POTW, City of (PDF) (13 pp, 102K) Enforcement	ME0100595	01/31/2008
Rockland (Rockland Harbor)	Rockland, City of; Waste Snow Dump (PDF) (29 pp, 2MB)	ME0036323	04/12/2012
Rockland (Rockland Harbor)	Rockland, City of; Waste Snow Dump (PDF) (15 pp, 817K)	ME0036323	12/28/2006
Rockland (Rockland Pier)	Dragon Products Company, LLC (PDF)(16 pp, 45K) Enforcement	ME0036994	11/25/2008
Rockport (Rockport Harbor)	Rockport Waste snowdump (PDF) (16 pp, 649K) Enforcement	ME0036307	10/03/2006

Camden (Camden Harbor Watershed)	Camden, Town of (PDF) (32 pp, 3MB)  Enforcement	ME0100137	07/18/2003
Camden (Camden Harbor)	Camden Waste Snow Dump, Town of (PDF) (29 pp, 1.2MB) Enforcement	ME0102725	08/05/2010
Camden (Megunticook River)	Camden Waste Snow Dump, Town of (PDF) (13 pp, 643K)	ME0102725	10/28/2005

Vinalhaven (Atlantic Ocean)	Vinalhaven POTW, Town of (PDF) (61 pp, 4.1MB) Enforcement	ME0102491	11/02/2012
Vinalhaven (Atlantic Ocean)	Vinalhaven POTW, Town of (PDF) (49 pp, 2.1MB)	ME0102491	11/1

North Haven (Fresh Pond)	North Haven DWTP, Town of (PDF) (34 pp, 1.1MB) Enforcement	ME0102482	08/02/2012
North Haven (Fresh Pond)	North Haven DWTP, Town of (PDF) (22 pp, 1.1MB)

Islesboro (East Penobscot Bay)	Islesboro, Town of (PDF) (11 pp, 1.8MB)	ME0100269	01/20/2012
Islesboro (East Penobscot Bay)	Islesboro, Town of (PDF) (25 pp, 1.3MB)	ME0100269	11/21/2005 Enforcement

Lncolnville Beach
Lincolnville Beach Sanitary Facility  Enforcement history

Northport Village Corp  Enforcement info

Northport

Atlantic Blanket Company (PDF) (33 pp, 2.3MB) Enforcement info

MEU508257

12/02/2010

Belfast	Moore’s Septic, Inc. (PDF) (40 pp, 3.2MB)  Enforcement info	MEU508259	10/03/2012
Belfast (Atlantic Ocean, Belfast Harbor)	Belfast POTW, City of (PDF) (81 pp, 3.2MB) Enforcement info	ME0101532	02/18/2011
Belfast (Belfast Harbor)	Belfast POTW, City of (PDF) (5 pp, 24K)	ME0101532	02/12/2008
Belfast (Belfast Harbor)	Belfast POTW, City of (PDF) (64 pp, 3MB)	ME0101532	05/23/2006
Belfast (Passagassawakeag River)	Penobscot McCrum, LLC (PDF) (72 pp, 4.7MB)	ME0023043	12/04/2012
Belfast (Passagassawakeag River)	Penobscot Mccrum, LLC (PDF) (64 pp, 2.5MB) Enforcement info	ME0023043	10/17/2007

Searsport (Atlantic Ocean/Stockton Harbor)	General Alum New England Corporation Chemical Manufacturing Facility 2006 (PDF) (42 pp, 3MB) Enforcement info TRI Discharges	ME0001830	03/03/2011
Searsport (Long Cove, Penobscot Bay)	Irving Oil Terminals, Inc. (PDF) (75 pp, 2.3MB) Enforcement info	ME0002461	04/09/2010
Searsport (Penobscot Bay)	Searsport, Town of (PDF) (79 pp, 1.4MB) Enforcement info	ME0101966	11/12/2008
Searsport (Searsport Harbor)	Irving Oil Terminals, Inc. (PDF) (70 pp, 2.2MB) Enforcement info  TRI Info	ME0021181	04/09/2010
Searsport (Searsport Tidewaters)	Sprague Energy Corporation (PDF) (73 pp, 14.3MB) Enforcement info	ME0002208	09/14/2009
Searsport (Searsport)	Sprague Energy Corporation (PDF) (27 pp, 1.3MB) TRI Info	ME0002208	12/15/2006

Winterport (Penobscot River)

Winterport Water District (PDF) (61 pp, 3.6MB) Enforcement  info

ME0100

Hampden (Penobscot River)	Coldbrook Energy, Inc. (PDF) (50 pp, 2.2MB) Enforcement info	ME0002267	12/20/2011
Hampden (Penobscot River)	Coldbrook Energy, Inc. (PDF) (31 pp, 1.4MB)	ME0002267	11/06/2006
Hampden (Souadabscook Stream)	Hampden CSO, Town of (PDF) (34 pp, 2.1MB) Enforcement info	ME0102512	02/04/2013
Hampden (Souadabscook Stream)	Hampden CSO, Town of (PDF) (52 pp, 1.7MB)	ME0102512	01/07/2008

Bangor (Penobscot River)	Webber Oil Company Bulk Fuel Storage Facility (PDF) (43 pp, 2.2MB)	ME0022225	05/19/2010
Bangor (Penobscot River)	Webber Oil Company (PDF) (28 pp, 1.5MB) Enforcement info	ME0022225	04/25/2006
Bangor (Penobscot River, Kenduskeag Stream )	Bangor POTW (PDF) (135 pp, 4.4MB) Enforcement info	ME0100781	05/26/2011

Bucksport	Bucksport, Town of (PDF) (65 pp, 4.1MB) Enforcement info	ME0100111	04/10/2012
Bucksport	Verso Bucksport LLC (PDF) (23 pp, 1.4MB)  Enforcement Information	ME0002160	06/07/2012
Bucksport	Verso Bucksport LLC (PDF) (22 pp, 1.8MB)	ME0002160	09/02/2010
Bucksport (Penobscot River)	Verso Bucksport LLC (PDF) (65 pp, 3.3MB)	ME0002160	01/07/2010
Bucksport (Penobscot River)	Webber Tanks, Inc. Bulk Fuel Storage Facility (PDF) (68 pp, 16.1MB)	ME0001457	10/15/2010
Bucksport (Penobscot River)	Webber Tanks, Inc. Bulk Fuel Storage Facility (PDF) (28 pp, 1.3MB)	ME0001457	04/25/2006

Orrington (Penobscot River)

Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. (PDF)(67 pp, 2.6MB)  Enforcement info

ME0023230

08/26/2009

Brewer (Penobscot River)	Brewer POTW (PDF) (111 pp, 2.7MB)	ME0100072	05/19/2011
Brewer (Penobscot River)	Brewer POTW (PDF) (34 pp, 933K) | Fact Sheet (PDF) (16 pp, 297K)	ME0100072	04/25/2003
Brewer (Penobscot River)	CES Inc. (PDF) (16 pp, 742K)	ME0102695	11/04/2005

Brewer POTW Enforcement

Orland	G.M. Allen & Son, Inc. Surface Wastewater Disposal System (PDF) (42 pp, 2.1MB)	MEU507791	12/22/2009
Orland	Letts Relax, Inc. (PDF) (35 pp, 1.55MB)	MEU507874	08/13/2007
Orland (Alamoosook Lake)	Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery (PDF) (8 pp, 544K)	ME0002437	02/04/2013
Orland (Alamoosook Lake)	Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery (PDF) (23 pp, 1.9MB)	ME0002437	05/16/2011
Orland (Alamoosook Lake)	Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery (PDF) (73 pp, 2.9MB)	ME0002437	02/02/2010

Penobscot (Penobscot River)

School Union 93 (PDF) (21 pp, 71K)

ME0101974

08/28/2008

Penobscot Nursing Home 

Castine	Castine POTW, Town of (PDF) (15 pp, 55K)	ME0101192	03/12/2008
Castine (Castine Harbor)	Castine POTW, Town of (PDF) (77 pp, 2.3MB)	ME0101192	12/29/2009

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