The unusual incident took place in Rumford, about 80 miles north of Portland.
Recent rounds of winter weather have been impacting portions of the Northeast and New England, but residents in one Maine town were greeted with a peculiar sight on Tuesday – brown snow. Officials said a malfunction at a local paper mill sent spent black liquor into the air, causing the snow to turn brown or tan.Black liquor is a byproduct of the paper production process.Town officials said the discolored snow was mostly confined to areas near the mill and stressed that it was non-toxic.
The school district was notified to let students know not to play with the brown snow, and pet owners were advised to keep their furry friends away from it as well.Additional testing was conducted later in the day, and those snow samples were found to have a pH of 8 or less."Based on guidance from , we are confident that the public safety concerns are minimal at this time," officials said in a Facebook post.
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