BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 8, 2024
The city, along with an organization administering 11 city-owned gardens, has closed the Libbytown community garden due to soil contamination. Both arsenic and benzo(a)pyrene, a type of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon commonly known as BaP, were found at the site in levels exceeding state safety standards. The city also intends to test the soil at all of its other community gardens in the coming weeks.