The only site in the state that takes wastewater sludge can no longer accept it because it doesn’t have enough dry waste like construction debris and household waste to mix with the wet material to create a stable landfill.
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Crisis building at Kennebec County wastewater treatment plants
Wastewater treatment plant operators across Maine face paying higher fees to truck sludge to New Brunswick after two state laws curtailed how biosolid disposal is handled.
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Norridgewock lab looks to abbreviate time it takes to perform PFAS testing
The first lab in Maine with the ability to test for PFAS in drinking water opened this week and its founders aim to make testing faster and more accessible for people.
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Maine to receive $19 million in EPA grants to address PFAS, other water contaminants
The funding will enable communities to improve local water infrastructure and reduce emerging contaminants in drinking water.
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Lawmakers consider state buyback program for farms ruined by tainted sludge
But there is disagreement about the best way to reimburse the growing number of farmers whose livelihoods have been devastated by forever chemicals, especially those who already have been waiting years for help.
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Maine developing PFAS safety levels for locally grown food
Preliminary research shows some crops, like potatoes and squash, could be safely grown on a contaminated farm, while others, like lettuce and carrots, appear to absorb and store forever chemicals.
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Ban on pesticides with PFAS feeds concern about unintended impacts
Some Maine farmers, including some of its 300 certified organic farmers, worry they soon won’t be able to defend their crops from pests, said Julie Ann Smith of the Maine Farm Bureau.
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Letter to the editor: The PFAS Brunswick really needs to worry about
As a resident of Brunswick, I have been struck by the care and attention the Town of Brunswick is making regarding the concerns for the presence of PFAS in the artificial turf installation proposed by Bowdoin College. However, there is a much greater PFAS problem facing the town that has not been given similar attention. […]
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Brunswick approves Bowdoin College’s controversial athletics turf plan
The Brunswick Planning Board voted unanimously to approve Bowdoin College’s Pickard Field Athletic Complex renovation plan after determining three new turf fields would not contaminate the area with dangerous levels of PFAS, a class of chemicals that has been linked to cancer.
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More than 1,000 Maine sites identified so far for testing of PFAS contamination
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection said in a report to a legislative committee that testing of an increasing number of sites likely will continue beyond a 2025 deadline.