GOULDSBORO — A Portland environmental assessment firm’s newly completed report singles out Jones Cove, Corea Harbor, Grand Marsh Bay and South Gouldsboro as areas where the shore, roads and culverts
Jones Cove is just one of the numerous inlets bisecting Gouldsboro’s 55-mile coastline, where generations of shellfish and marine worm diggers have made a living in the intertidal zone flats.
At the Select Board’s meeting on Dec. 9, Gouldsboro Infrastructure Superintendent Jim McLean said DMR is aware of the failed water quality tests, and he expects the state agency to close Prospect Harbor to shellfish harvesting “for only one year,” not five years as initially anticipated.