PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 18, 2024
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention updated its fish consumption advisory list Tuesday, adding four freshwater sites containing so-called forever chemicals and expanding guidelines for other locations. Officials recently found evidence of PFAS at the following ponds, lakes, streams and rivers as a part of a yearslong testing effort that has identified more than a dozen contaminated sites:
• Belgrade and Oakland – McGrath Pond and Salmon Lake (consume no more than one meal per month of any fish species)
• Caribou – Aroostook River from the Aroostook River Reservoir to Haley Island in Fort Fairfield (consume no more than two meals per month of brook trout)
• Corinth to Bangor – Kenduskeag Stream from the Robyville covered bridge to the Penobscot River (consume no more than one meal per month of smallmouth bass)
• Monmouth and Winthrop – All of Annabessacook Lake (consume no more than 10 meals per year of black crappie)