[CPEO-BIF] Lubec, Maine cannery site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield grant to help Lubec tear down cannery, open up beach

By Johanna S. Billings
Bangor Daily News (ME)
March 22, 2016

LUBEC, Maine - An old, dilapidated cannery building on Route 189 in Lubec will be coming down this summer, thanks to a $400,000 federal environmental cleanup grant.

The funding will help to clean up the dangerous site, open a scenic vista overlooking Johnson Bay and create a trail to the beach for the public to enjoy, according to local officials.

The cannery went out of business in the 1960s, and the building is falling in on itself, said John Sutherland, Lubec’s town administrator.

“The [cannery] site has been recognized as an issue for some time,” he said. “You’ve got this big blemish on the road into town.”

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For the entire article, see
http://bangordailynews.com/2016/03/22/news/down-east/brownfield-grant-to-help-lubec-tear-down-cannery-open-up-beach/

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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
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