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What is Behind The Worumbo Purchase? --- By Joe Hill
Lisbon
Councilors have proposed buying Worumbo Mill and several other parcels
of land on Mill Street from Miller Industries. Both of these locations
have a history of hazardous material problems according to the Bureau Of
Remediation and Waste Management.
If you do a hazardous materials search on the Maine DEP site using “Lisbon and Worumbo Mill” as search criteriayou will get no less that 34 hits from 1963 thru 2012. The following excerpt is from one of the Worumbo Mill reports.
Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management Report # P-823-2000 Report update of July, 2003: As of July 2003, Maine DEP and US EPA have been investigating the presence and storage of hundreds of drums of old hazardous waste located at this mill, and at several other Miller Industries locations in Lisbon. Many of these drums may have had their contents illegally dumped into the Androscoggin River. See files of DEP RCRA unit for further information.
S G Brezinski Maine DEP,
The property on Mill Street is also connected with hazardous material spills. The following excerpt is from one of those reports.
Report: P-1139-2003 During RCRA closure activities for the Miller Industries (Miller) facilities located on Mill Street in Lisbon, it was brought to the attention of Miller's consultant, Sevee & Maher Engineers (SME), that there was a former water treatment building on the property which had a mercury discharge in 1994. The incident had been responded to at that time (P-639-1994). The 1994 incident dealt with a single discharge event which was cleaned up to the level necessary at the time. Closure, would however require a more stringent level of clean-up as it would deal with all mercury contamination over the life of the facility.
It was discovered early on in the investigation that the 1994 clean-up was not as thorough as it had been reported at the time. SME determined that the clean-up would consist of removal of contaminated debris inside the building, as well as sampling and removal outside the building and sediment of the Sabattus River.
SME undertook this removal process under MDEP direction (MDEP parties involved: Andy Slusarski, Deb Stahler, and Rob Peale), as a portion of the Miller Industries RCRA Closure.
As you can see these properties have had environmental problems in the past. Some of these problems have been corrected some still exist. (mercury on Mill St.)
Have you asked yourself why the Mill Street property is included in the Worumbo Mill purchase? These two properties are several miles apart. Is it possible Miller Industries is trying to dump all future cleanup responsibility on the taxpayers of Lisbon?
I am having a hard time believing Lisbon Councilors are unaware of the costly problems associated with this purchase. Why are they so eager to saddle Lisbon taxpayers with this huge liability?
Tell us what you think about this bond by contacting us at admin@lisbonmaine.net
Respectfully
If you do a hazardous materials search on the Maine DEP site using “Lisbon and Worumbo Mill” as search criteriayou will get no less that 34 hits from 1963 thru 2012. The following excerpt is from one of the Worumbo Mill reports.
Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management Report # P-823-2000 Report update of July, 2003: As of July 2003, Maine DEP and US EPA have been investigating the presence and storage of hundreds of drums of old hazardous waste located at this mill, and at several other Miller Industries locations in Lisbon. Many of these drums may have had their contents illegally dumped into the Androscoggin River. See files of DEP RCRA unit for further information.
S G Brezinski Maine DEP,
The property on Mill Street is also connected with hazardous material spills. The following excerpt is from one of those reports.
Report: P-1139-2003 During RCRA closure activities for the Miller Industries (Miller) facilities located on Mill Street in Lisbon, it was brought to the attention of Miller's consultant, Sevee & Maher Engineers (SME), that there was a former water treatment building on the property which had a mercury discharge in 1994. The incident had been responded to at that time (P-639-1994). The 1994 incident dealt with a single discharge event which was cleaned up to the level necessary at the time. Closure, would however require a more stringent level of clean-up as it would deal with all mercury contamination over the life of the facility.
It was discovered early on in the investigation that the 1994 clean-up was not as thorough as it had been reported at the time. SME determined that the clean-up would consist of removal of contaminated debris inside the building, as well as sampling and removal outside the building and sediment of the Sabattus River.
SME undertook this removal process under MDEP direction (MDEP parties involved: Andy Slusarski, Deb Stahler, and Rob Peale), as a portion of the Miller Industries RCRA Closure.
As you can see these properties have had environmental problems in the past. Some of these problems have been corrected some still exist. (mercury on Mill St.)
Have you asked yourself why the Mill Street property is included in the Worumbo Mill purchase? These two properties are several miles apart. Is it possible Miller Industries is trying to dump all future cleanup responsibility on the taxpayers of Lisbon?
I am having a hard time believing Lisbon Councilors are unaware of the costly problems associated with this purchase. Why are they so eager to saddle Lisbon taxpayers with this huge liability?
Tell us what you think about this bond by contacting us at admin@lisbonmaine.net
Respectfully
LisbonMaine.Net
Joe Hill
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