BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 27, 2024
Orland voters adopted a moratorium Thursday that will temporarily prevent the owner of two local dams — one on Alamoosook Lake and another on Toddy Pond — from disposing of the properties. The temporary measure is similar to another adopted by Bucksport last month, which aims to ensure that a third dam on Silver Lake is not abandoned, removed, transferred to a new owner, or opened up to release all the water held behind it. All three of the dams are owned by subsidiaries of AIM Demolition USA, which bought the former Verso Paper mill in Bucksport in 2015 before dismantling the facility.