[CPEO-BIF] Maine

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup funds helping state repurpose contaminated sites

By Beth Quimby
Maine Sunday Telegram
July 24, 2011

Earlier this summer, a fence went up around the Keddy Mill site in  
South Windham Village.

Access to the crumbling mill building was restricted, and a meeting  
was scheduled to inform area residents of the low-level but  
widespread toxic contamination discovered in their midst.

The news for Keddy Mill, where owner HRC Village at Little Falls has  
long envisioned a Presumpscot Riverfront residential development,  
keeps getting worse.

The seven-acre property is one of 175 brownfields on the Maine  
Department of Environmental Protection's official list of sites where  
redevelopment has stalled because of real or perceived industrial  
contamination. While the stories for many brownfield sites in Maine  
have happy endings, the fate for Keddy Mill appears far from certain.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressherald.com/news/cleanup-funds-helping-state-repurpose- 
contaminated-sites_2011-07-24.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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