At Issue. Kidder Point's shore received thousands of tons of solid waste laid down on wooden cribs during 30 years of superphosphate fertilizer production for Maine's potato industry, and alum production for Maine's paper industry. See expansion of the point into the harbor in aerial photos from 1940 and 2011. Wastes are up to 18 feet thick on the now rotting wooden cribs now liningthe shore. Some wastes are mildly radioactive. Some acidic. Some alkaline. None should be eroding into Penobscot Bay. Read industrial news articles and reports from1903 to1974 about this site & nearby Mack Point
See a large 1993 map of then-Delta Chemical's waste sites and landfills .

Soils covering some of the shoreline dumps have failed allowing a large amount of phosphogypsum and bauxite to erode and leach back into the intertidal flats of a semiconfined cove adjacent to the site.Kidder Point's shallow groundwater flows into Stockton Harbor via intertidal seeps. This groundwater has high levels of sulfate and is very acidic due to 1984 spill from acid tank.

The Goal: Get GAC and other responsible parties to examine, trim back and re-landscape eroding shorelines to contain wastes deposited there to end their erosion.

GAC aerial photographs Use Back Button to Return Here * Google earth aerials of site 1997-2011 * 2011 GAC Chemical aerial w/company property lines. * (5) Kidder Point waste fill areas * 2004 Aerial with now-razed fertilizer-then-bauxite quonset hut. *** w/o quonset hut (2011). 5/3/13 LighHawk Flight * Tainted cove looking South. ** looking North. * Kidder Point tainted cove & Sears Island. * * (4) Old acid factory, eroding wastes & leacheates

Kidder Point Industrial Site History Use back Button to return * 1984 DEP consultant's 1984 sulfuric acid spill report. * 1984 Surface sampling * 1990 Testing of 'Alum Reactor Waste' 9/14/90 * 1993 DEP consultant's 1993 site summary * 1998 photo of tainted mud (acid tank in background) * 1998 site assessment by Delta Chemical 3/17/98 pt1 * 1998 site assessment 3/17/98 pt2 * Drawn map of 1998 pH testing of acid spill. * 1998 media coverage of spill detection & cleanup * 2002 draft settlement agreement CLF & GAC

MaineDEP Staff Involved Karen Knuuti, Environmental Spec, Bureau of Remediation and Waste Mgmt. Bangor (207) 941-4561 karen.knuuti@maine.gov Wilkes B Harper. Brownfields/VRAP Project Mgr Bureau of Remediation & Waste Mgmt. Augusta (207) 287-4856 office / (207) 592-1192 cell wilkes.b.harper@maine.gov Nick Hodgkins Oil & Haz Materials Specialist Bureau of Remediation & Waste Mgmt, Augusta (207) 287-4854 (desk) (207) 592-0882 (cell) nick.hodgkins@maine.gov Susanne Miller, Director, Maine DEP Bangor Office Phone: (207) 941.4190 / Cell: (207) 557.2700 Susanne.miller@maine.gov