TIMES RECORD • October 21, 2020
A number of sites at the former Naval Air Station Brunswick (now known as Brunswick Landing) are the subject of environmental remediation actions in accordance with the national Superfund Law for the remediation of contaminants left by the Navy. These “Superfund” sites must be cleaned up before they can be transferred to MRRA, the town or any other eligible recipient. Based upon the Navy’s planned clean-up of the Picnic Pond contaminants, the ongoing Mare Brook Watershed planning effort, and the significant local public interest and extensive dialogue regarding the legacy stormwater management system associated with the former Navy base, there is a great opportunity to develop an innovative approach to the problem that could result in the environmental restoration of the ecological values of the Picnic Pond drainage system. ~ Steve Levesque, Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority