FORECASTER • July 9, 2021
The town’s Committee for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability began discussions in September on what to do with a roughly 15-acre former hazardous waste site owned by Central Maine Power used to chemically-treat utility poles, committee member David Ertz said. Since the site was cleaned up in 2001, Ertz said, the town has had an option to purchase the property for $1, a deal that was negotiated when the town bought an adjacent 34-acre property that same year. “The pole yard is a brownfield site and there are few uses for the site that wouldn’t require a lot of expensive remediation work and potential liability issues,” Yarmouth Town Council Chairwoman April Humphrey said. “A solar farm is one of the best possible uses of the site, which we would otherwise probably not have found a use for.”