2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 23:35:13 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] REUSE, VOCs: Former Air Force Radar Tracking Station, Bucks Harbor, ME
 
Prison limbo halts plan for water pipeline

by RJ Heller
Quoddy Times (ME)
April 27, 2018

 
A pipeline providing a clean water supply to homes known to have contaminated water in Bucks Harbor, Machiasport, is on hold, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Marie Wojtas, project manager for USACE, says that residents of Bucks Harbor were notified in February that due to the recent and sudden closure of Downeast Correctional Facility (DCF) the installation of an approved and budgeted water pipeline has been stopped.

"The issue that we were not expecting is that DCF would close before the water line was installed," says Wojtas. "This complicates the process from the perspective of funding the cost of the installation without a known operator at the time of installation.”

The prison was closed abruptly on February 9 when heavily armed officers of the Department of Corrections (DOC) and Maine State Police rounded up guards, staff and inmates, removing them from the facility. All employees of DCF were given termination notices. Following a judge's ruling in a court case that was brought over the closure, the facility has since been reopened but is operating at a minimal capacity, with official closure still set for June 2018 unless additional funding is approved by the legislature.

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For the entire article, see
http://quoddytides.com/prison-limbo-halts-plan-for-water-pipeline4-27-2018.html

See also http://www.mainebiz.biz/article/20180502/NEWS01/180509991

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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