STOCKTON HARBOR
COMING EVENTS:
Saturday May 13, 2012. Noon-3 pm. Continued core sampling of Stockton Harbor intertidal flats below the GAC Chemical Corporation
facility on Kidder Point.
Purpose: Discover how far offshore GAC Chemical the silvery colored alum-tainted mud extends into the intertidal flat.
How Starting at low tide water's edge off GAC Chemical, take core samples every ten paces, sampling shoreward. Remove cores from tubes
onto photo board. Photograph, then rinse mud through sieve, gathering organisms, if any, for examination photographing & release
Background. Alum-tainted mud was
examined by Maine DEP & us in 1998
RECENT EVENTS
May 6, 2011 GAC Shoreline Core Sampling reveals continued presence of alum tainted intertidal mud off facility on Kidder Point.
April 29, 2012 Cape Jellison reconnaisance: Nature & Humankind, sharing the shore.
April 22, 2012 SW Stockton Harbor's industrial shores a quick look.
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.
