Prospective Buyer Found For Shuttered Hampden Waste Facility

MAINE PUBLIC • December 30, 2020

A group of more than 100 Maine municipalities has reached a preliminary agreement with a prospective bidder to purchase the Coastal Resources of Maine waste facility in Hampden. The plant has been closed for more than six months. It opened last year but shut down in May after continued financial problems. At a meeting on Tuesday, members of the Municipal Review Committee, a nonprofit representing the 115 municipalities in central and eastern Maine, said that they had reached a tentative agreement with a prospective buyer. The buyer’s identity wasn’t revealed.