But enforcement capacity remains nearly nonexistent, and current dam safety regulations do not account for climate change.

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Underfunded and understaffed, Maine’s dam agency does what it can to keep the aging infrastructure safe

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Nearly a decade after a company abandoned the paper mill that once shaped Bucksport’s economy, its successor is in the process of abandoning three dams that shape the surrounding watershed. On Thursday night, scores of people who rely on the dam’s reservoirs for drinking water and waterfront property value packed into the former mill’s campus, seizing their only opportunity to confront representatives of the dams’ owner, AIM Development USA. One…

Underfunded and understaffed, Maine’s dam agency does what it can to keep the aging infrastructure safe

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