Towns Approve Forming Watershed Districts to Take over Dams

Hancock County towns approve initial step toward taking ownership of dams

Four Hancock County towns voted Tuesday to lay the groundwork for taking ownership of two local dams that the current owner of a defunct paper mill site wants to abandon. A subsidiary of the salvage company that in 2014 bought the dams along with of Bucksport’s shuttered Verso Paper mill, American Iron and Metal, is petitioning the state to let it abandon three dams that were built to supply the mill and have contained water levels for a century…

Towns approve forming watershed districts to take over dams

Residents of four Hancock County towns overwhelmingly voted during the Nov. 4 referendum Tuesday to take ownership of the Toddy Pond dam.