Penobscot Bay Waste Dischargers
Dragon Cement Products, Thomaston 60 years of limestone quarrying and cement making has resulted in mammoth waste piles, fractured aquafers and the release of an unknown amount of lead and mercury into the area's air and water. is searching for ways to nudge Dragon into dealing with these legacies.
Penobscot Nursing Home, Penobscot. Learn how this business' sewage discharges have closed Northern Bay of the Bagaduce River,and what MDEP is doing about it.
Sewage Treatment Plants Penobscot Bay POTWs (Public Owned Treatment Plants) are listed and their basic data and contact information
Vessel Pumpouts. Maine considers no-discharge zones for cruise ships in Maine bays, ban on graywater discharges in Penobscot Bay harbors.Links to news, reports and studies
GAC (General Alum & Chemical Corporation). This site on Kidder Point, presently occupied by GAC has a 120 year history of chemical and fertilizer manufacturing operations. As a result, onsite waste ponds and pits dot the property. Pipelines riddle the soil. Layers of solid wastes and debris laid down at the edge of the property by successive businessesare easily visible strata in the crumbling bluffs now eroding onto some of Stockton Harbor's historically rich clam and worm flats. WHAT'S BEING DONE.
Septage Wastes
Human wastes from septic tanks, port-a-potties and vessel pumpouts are defined under Maine DEP law and regulations as "septage".DEP and Maine towns are required to regulate and track septage hauling, storage and landspreading using these
online forms and applications. Septage is regulated by completely different rules from sewage sludge. It can be sprayed onto land, trucked to sewage treatment plants or pumped into septage holding facilities (lagoons). MORE ABOUT SEPTAGE AND PENOBSCOT BAY
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Toxics Information by Bay Town
On June 30, 2003 the US EPA released the 2001 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Data. Information supplied includes On-site and Off-site Reported Releases (in pounds), for facilities in all industries, for all chemicals, in Maine, 2001. Below are the TRI reports for the six towns around Penobscot Bay that are on the TRI inventory. This is followed by county-level reports of releases (in pounds), for facilities in all industries, for all chemicals, in Knox, Waldo and Hancock Counties.
Bucksport International Paper
Brewer Eastern Fine Paper
Bangor: El Dur Corp , GE Co, GE Co Power Systems, Osram Sylvania Inc.
Searsport Sprague Irving GAC
Rockland FMC Biopolymer
Thomaston Dragon Cement
GENERAL TOXICS INFORMATION BY COUNTY
Knox County
Knox County Detailed Report
Waldo County
Waldo County Detailed Report
Hancock County
Hancock County Detailed Report
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