BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 6, 2021
The $90 million waste processing plant in Hampden that’s been shut down since last year will have its heat restored as the bondholders that funded the plant’s construction look for a buyer. A group representing the 115 Maine towns and cities that sent their waste to the plant said Monday that it has reached an agreement with Bangor Natural Gas to resume gas service to the facility off Hampden’s Coldbrook Road. The committee warned that a lack of heat could lead to frozen pipes and put the plant’s anaerobic digester tanks that hold more than 550,000 gallons of sludge at risk. Environmental damage was possible, the group said.