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.
The Kennebec Water District received four reports of water main breaks in Waterville and Winslow on Saturday and all have been repaired, according to superintendent Roger Crouse, who said it is "extremely rare" to have four breaks in one day.
Widespread contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) “has the potential to impose an unsustainable burden on state and private resources,” the Maine PFAS Task Force wrote three years ago. The weight of that burden from widely.
The Greater Augusta Utility District lifted the order Wednesday after water samples taken Tuesday following a water pipe break on Haskell Street showed no contamination occurred.