BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 15, 2024
On a 33-acre peninsula on the Sheepscot River in Wiscasset sits a polluted old power plant that was active for decades, but that has sat empty since the late 1990s. Now, a team of Maine developers hope to succeed where others have failed over the last few decades: in finally cleaning up the contaminated Mason Station site and making it available for other purposes that could include a marina, manufacturing and renewable energy technology. Wiscasset has cleaned up most of what it can, according to Town Manager Dennis Simmons. Since 2018, it has received more than $1 million in brownfields funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help clean the ash ponds and other pollutants on the peninsula. But efforts to clean up the former power plant have been slower going.