SUN JOURNAL • June 10, 2023
We are disheartened by a group of bills that once again targets our company. One bill of concern is L.D. 1111 — a misguided proposal that would usurp the authority of water utilities to exercise their science-based stewardship of local water resources. It limits any contract for the large-scale purchase of water, making it impractical and unaffordable for any large-scale water purchaser — including Poland Spring — to invest in infrastructure and plan future operations, thus eliminating the benefits to ratepayers of any offsets in prices. In a year, we use less than 0.01% of all groundwater in Maine. In addition, we help conserve over 6,000 acres of land around our spring sites to ensure the sustainability of the resource and local environment. ~ Cameron Lorrain and Heather Printup, Poland Spring