washington county - polution (Presque Isle, Bucksport: disposal, fence, statistics)
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We are looking still for the place to move in Maine to find more information.
I didn't expected that towns in Washington county have very low Superfund Sites (100=best) raiting (Higher is better. Based upon the number and impact of EPA Superfund pollution sites in the county, including spending on the cleanup efforts. )
- about 20. Cities, towns in the other counties are about 98.
What is the problem in the W.C., please?
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Originally Posted by lumiwa
I understand about "old boys network"...
What is more "scary" for me is:
superfound sites: Calais: 20 USA 71
Higher is better. Based upon the number and impact of EPA Superfund pollution sites in the county, including spending on the cleanup efforts. Updated:06/10
"The same is for Eastport and many other towns in Washington county.
Trenton from Hancock county for example has 99...
You should carefully look at what is meant by a superfund site. Is it an abandoned chemical manufacturing plant with cyanides and radioactive residue in the ground or a fish processing plant where entrails spilled and leaked through the floor? They both count as superfund sites.
Personally, I haven't found anything in Calais that I'm scared of."
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It's the same answer now as it was back and August when Mensaguy posted the above. Not all Superfund sites are created equal. Sometimes it pays to actually visit an area you are interested in moving to. Sorry if it sounds harsh, but superfund sites are not a big issue in Washington County. A lot of those listed for Aroostook County are from cow manure that some environmentalist feels is dropped too close to a pristine body of water. Not that it's not an issue, but fish entrails and cow dung aren't killing many of us. Throw in a few leaking gas tanks from old filling stations and Maine looks pretty scary.
You can always tell people from Washington County. We all have a certain glow about us.
How dat Bob?
We make Smurfs jealous. They wish they were neon green too.
My status: Personal experience trumps anything you can read
If you're unwilling to believe what you read here earlier you should come here to gain personal experience. Look around and see what's here for yourself. It should help put your mind at ease.
A guy in Meddybemps had some old barrels on his property. They were nearly empty. Somebody complained and called the feds. The feds evicted the guy and built a chain link fence around his property with barbed wire atop the fence. It looks like a prison. They moved some office trailers in there and last time I was by the site the trailers were still there. It is a designated superfund site. It is a huge boondoggle and a waste of taxpayer money.
The alternative would have been to take the barrels away for proper disposal.
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Actually, he had quite a lot more than a few barrels. He was (and still is I believe) in a contract with Old Loring AFB. They send him tires lately but before they had electric transformers and just about anything else the AF didn't want to stick in their backyard. We used to go up getting parts off the junk cars back when it was down on the corner.
Actually, he had quite a lot more than a few barrels. He was (and still is I believe) in a contract with Old Loring AFB. They send him tires lately but before they had electric transformers and just about anything else the AF didn't want to stick in their backyard. We used to go up getting parts off the junk cars back when it was down on the corner.
I've got about 12 tires in my backyard from where we grow potatoes in raised beds, maybe I'll end up a superfund site. And all those buckets from the tomatoes as well. Oh well!
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He had a few more than a dozen. LOL. from what I understand he was caught between a rock and a hard place. Every semitruck of tires and crap that came down from Loring he got fined by the EPA. If he stopped taking them then the EPA wouldn't fine him but another section of gov't would go after him for breach of contract. Must be scores of old R/R box cars there chock-a-block full. At least they made a good screening fence.
Thank you very much for the answers but I am not sure if this is a true.
Just one example:
"Bucksport, ME Health Index
Air quality in Bucksport, ME is 69 on a scale to 100 (higher is better). This is based on ozone alert days and number of pollutants in the air, as reported by the EPA.
Water quality in Bucksport, ME is 60 on a scale to 100 (higher is better). The EPA has a complex method of measuring watershed quality using 15 indicators.
Superfund index is 99 on a scale to 100 (higher is better). This is upon the number and impact of EPA Superfund pollution sites in the county, including spending on the cleanup efforts."
Thank you very much for the answers but I am not sure if this is a true.
Just one example:
"Bucksport, ME Health Index
Air quality in Bucksport, ME is 69 on a scale to 100 (higher is better). This is based on ozone alert days and number of pollutants in the air, as reported by the EPA.
Water quality in Bucksport, ME is 60 on a scale to 100 (higher is better). The EPA has a complex method of measuring watershed quality using 15 indicators.
Superfund index is 99 on a scale to 100 (higher is better). This is upon the number and impact of EPA Superfund pollution sites in the county, including spending on the cleanup efforts."
And they have the cows too and not just them...
Step away from the keyboard and actually visit these places that are so scary to you. A few years ago Presque Isle was going to lose some federal money because it had failed several EPA emission levels for air quality. Turns out that when the sun came out and dried up the sand that had been put down on the roads, and log trucks passed through town, it stirred up some dust. The monitor device that was checking air quality for the EPA was located just above street level downtown. The solution was the town needed to use their street sweeper to sweep up any sand that had been put down during a storm. Looked quite foolish to the local folks, but that was how Presque Isle got off the Gov't boogie list for poor air quality. Gov't statistics are probably not the only thing you should use to rate a community. Go visit the community if you want to find the truth. And I'll bet there aren't many cows in Bucksport! I'd be surprised if they had one dairy farmer there. OK, I'm wrong if they do!
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