STOCKTON HARBOR
COMING EVENTS:
Saturday May 6 from 3-6 pm, Core sampling Stockton Harbor intertidal flats between the Sears Island causeway and Kidder Point. Purpose: Discover if the silvery colored alum-tainted intertidal mud zone found in 1998 is still there. How? Pound one inch pipe twelve inches into the mud, . Poorly maintained GAC shoreline waste dump from decades ago has leached into adjacent intertidfal flatUse dowel to press mud out in cylinders, photograph/ rinse apart for invertebrates. Move twenty paces across mudflat. Repeat process. More info Click Here or call 593-2744.
* GAC Area Photographs 1997-2001
RECENT EVENTS
April 29, 2012 Cape Jellison reconnaisance: Nature & Humankind, sharing the shore
April 22, 2012 SW Stockton Harbor's industrial shores
April 17, 2012 DMR issues Penobscot Bay Watch 2012 special license" for beach seining Stockton Harbor & Searsport Harbor.
LICENSED DISCHARGER
GAC CHEMICAL CORP
* GAC Industrial Area: Aerial Photographs 1997-2001
* CLF archive
October 8, 2002 GAC settles CLF's CWA lawsuit. Lawsuit began
October 3, 2001 when Conservation Law Foundation sent GAC a Notice of Intent to Sue under the Clean Water Act At Issue: GAC
polluting Stockton Harbor with acid and other wastes. In settlement GAC agreed to install limestone filtration added to neutralize acid wastewater before discharge
into Stockton Harbor, and donated $20,000 to a Stockton Harbor restoration und. The funds were stolen by Maine Legislature for deficit reduction.
April 28, 1998 MDEP carries out GAC Intertidal Mud Survey. Memos 1998
April 8, 1998 "Soiled Flats: the Cleanup" BDN
* Stockton Harbor the Cape Shore
* Searsport Harbor Dredge Spoils
* GAC Intertidal Mud Survey memos 1998
March 21, 2012 GAC Chemical Corp obtains 2012 MPDES Permit Renewal
EPA Toxic chemicals report
All Searsport licensed dischargers
GAC ENFORCEMENT AND CLEAN UP HISTORY.
