[CPEO-BIF] Corn canning factory, Norway, Maine

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Canning factory site being evaluated

By Leslie H. Dixon
Lewiston Sun Journal (ME)
August 15, 2008


NORWAY - The results of the second phase of an environmental study of 
the old corn canning factory on Lake Road will be revealed next month, 
but early indications show there may be no significant hazards.

"There's nothing too ominous on any of the sites," said Janet Pelletier 
from the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments. A $200,000 
Environmental Protection Agency grant was awarded in 2005 for the 
testing of five potentially hazardous sites, including the corn shop at 
61 Lake Road.

While the specific results of the water and land tests won't be revealed 
until a public hearing at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 in Norway Town Hall, Pelletier 
said it doesn't appear that the tests, which included groundwater and 
soil sampling, will show anything "too bad."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sunjournal.com/story/278732-3/OxfordHills/Canning_factory_site_being_evaluated/

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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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