[CPEO-BIF] McCain cooler plant, Washburn, Maine

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEP commissioner to visit cleanup sites in Washburn, Wallagrass

By Jen Lynds
Bangor Daily News (ME)
August 3, 2011
WASHBURN, Maine - Patricia Aho, acting commissioner of the state  
Department of Environmental Protection, will be in Aroostook County  
for a two-day tour that will take her to several businesses and to  
two significant environmental cleanup sites.

Samantha Depoy-Warren, spokesperson for the DEP, said on Tuesday that  
the tour will take place Aug. 10 and 11. Aho will be visiting The  
County to meet with staff at the Presque Isle DEP office, with stops  
at Smith & Wesson in Houlton, McCain Foods in Easton and the Maine  
Potato Board in Presque Isle.

One major reason for Aho's visit, according to Depoy-Warren, is for  
her to review a brownfield project in Washburn and cleanup efforts  
DEP is overseeing in Wallagrass where 5,000 gallons of gas were  
spilled in a tractor-trailer truck accident in May.

The town of Washburn, working with the DEP, Northern Maine  
Development Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,  
recently began a brownfield revitalization project at the former  
McCain cooler plant on Gardner Creek Road. The community was awarded  
a $200,000 Brownfield Cleanup subgrant by the Northern Maine  
Development Commission in May to remove asbestos and other hazardous  
materials at the site.


...

For the entire article, see
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/08/03/news/aroostook/dep-commissioner- 
to-visit-cleanup-sites-in-washburn-wallagrass/?ref=latest#1_undefined,0_

--

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>
http://www.cpeo.org

_______________________________________________
Brownfields mailing list
Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org