MAINE MONITOR • February 13, 2022
A 48-acre expansion of the Crossroads Landfill in Norridgewock is set to move forward after the Maine Board of Environmental Protection in late January denied an appeal by the Conservation Law Foundation that would have halted or altered the project. CLF had asked the board to reverse the final licensing decision of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, which approved the expansion last May, or modify it to include a number of requirements. The board rejected both requests, saying that the landfill owner, Waste Management, had met the licensing requirements. While board member Bob Duchesne said some of CLF’s ideas were good ones, most “are policy decisions that aren’t ours to consider.” Although the least desirable disposal option, landfills remain a necessary part of the waste hierarchy, particularly as Mainers have generated trash at increasingly high rates in recent years.