BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 7, 2020
The volunteer organization working to redevelop the former Great Northern Paper Co. mill in Millinocket is one of three Maine groups that will receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal government to assess and clean up contaminated industrial and commercial sites. Our Katahdin has been awarded two grants totaling $850,000 through the federal Brownfields program to conduct an environmental assessment of the 1,400-acre mill site and clean up its former administration building, which is contaminated with chemicals and heavy metals. Papermaking operations at the Millinocket mill site stopped in 2008.