City Gets EPA Boost for Redevelopment of Old Middle School

City gets EPA boost for redevelopment of old middle school

Plans to redevelop the former Hastings Middle School building for a new purpose have received a boost from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Bar Harbor gets $510K EPA grant to clean up YMCA site

BAR HARBOR, Maine — Bar Harbor has been awarded a $510,000 brownfield cleanup grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to remediate contaminated soils on a portion of the Mount Desert Island YMCA Park Street campus, the town announced Friday. Coal ash. Arsenic. Lead. Cancer-causing chemicals. It all lurks in the top three feet of soil at the MDI YMCA’s 21 Park St. campus, a lot that’s owned by the town of Bar Harbor. “This is a big wi…

Bar Harbor awarded $510,000 EPA grant to clean up YMCA site

BAR HARBOR — The town of Bar Harbor has been awarded a $510,000 Brownfield Cleanup Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to remediate contaminated soils on a portion of the Mount Desert Island YMCA Park Street campus.