BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 23, 2024
Trombley Industries, a Limestone-based contractor, has paid $12,000 to the Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge for causing silt contamination within the refuge’s wetlands. The Maine DEP received a complaint from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Sept. 2022 about high silt levels in Greenlaw Brook, which runs for six miles on land abutting the refuge and the Mi’kmaq Nation land trust. Trombley uses a ditch system for its gravel washing operations. A portion of that ditching system had eroded. The $12,000 will pay for signage, gates and other infrastructure for a trail that volunteers from the Friends group are constructing with the USFWS and Mi’kmaq Nation. The trail will connect Greenlaw Brook with East Loring and include signage that explains Mi’kmaq culture and history and environmental clean-up efforts at the former Loring base.