State environmental officials on July 30 denied petitions from corporate owners of three Bucksport-area dams to forfeit ownership.
in the applications from dam owners Bucksport Mill, LLC and parent company AIM Demolition USA LLC, which filed to forfeit their dams on Alamoosook Lake, Silver Lake and Toddy Pond in early July.
The denial shows that the department is taking AIM’s requests to relinquish the dams seriously, Bucksport Town Manager Susan Lessard told The Maine Monitor. In addition to their importance to the communities, all three are classified as “high” risk, meaning human lives are in danger if the dams fail.
In the case of AIM’s dams, local pond and lake association members say that this part of the process doesn’t provide the information that an interested owner would need to determine the condition of the dam and the costs to operate and maintain it.recent inspection and maintenance reports to DEP, which AIM has failed to do. But they do not have to provide detailed studies on the long-term future of the dams.
Although the department owns 82 dams, it has never taken over one that has been forfeited under this law. The Maine Emergency Management Agency takes the last bite of the apple if the other two agencies pass. Unlike DACF and DIFW, however, MEMA doesn’t own any dams, nor does it have specified funds for dam management, officials said.
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