GAC Chemical finally to remediate its abandoned sulfuric acid plant!
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At Issue. Kidder Point's shore received thousands of tons of highly acidic waste slurries laid down behind wooden cribs between 1940 and 1970 on the sides of the 5 acre peninsula (Kidder Point) that the abandoned acid factory is perched on. These wastes are byproducts of fertilizer making for Maine's potato industry, alum production for Maine's paper industry, and sulfuric acid production to carry out both of the above.
The wooden cribs weren't maintained Very visible, very acidic long lasting multicolored plumes of eroding waste have been entering these waters at the southwest corner of Stockton Harbor and its tidal mud beneath the old factory,
Two acid sources for the plumes (1) leaked sulfuric acid from 30 years of sulfuric acid making, (2) more than sixty officially reported sulfuric acid spills at the site beween 1983 and 2004, alone.