Members of the public did sound off on NNEPRA’s stormwater management permit application at the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) public hearing held in Brunswick on March 25. (See “Public sounds off on stormwater permit,” The Times Record, March 26.) They also sounded off in 78 written comments on the proposed Brunswick Layover Facility (BLF), which were submitted to the DEP and posted on the Department’s website at http://www.maine.gov/dep/ftp/B LF/Written%20comments.
The great majority of the commenters emphatically support the construction of the layover facility. Brunswick accounted for the greatest number of comments, but Harpswell, Topsham, Yarmouth, and Portland writers also made their views known.
Your neighbors’ opinions on the BLF and the debate surrounding it are well worth reading.
Emily Boochever Brunswick
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