BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 31, 2021
A contaminated former mine in Brooksville is one of 49 Superfund sites across the country whose cleanup will be funded with $1 billion from the recently passed infrastructure bill signed into law in November. The former Callahan Mining Corporation site operated from the late 1800s until it closed in 1972. It is the only contaminated site from Maine in line for funding from the $1 billion investment announced recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “This site has been plagued with legacy contamination that, until now, EPA has not had the funding to clean up,” EPA New England Acting Regional Administrator Deb Szaro said. “Getting this site off of the backlog list and cleaned up is a very important step for Brooksville to envision potential future uses for this area.”