BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 23, 2023
A new video presentation is aimed at securing millions of federal dollars for a long-sought Portland Harbor dredging project 20 years in the making. Private and municipal stakeholders are including the short film for a federal Department of Transportation Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity — or RAISE — grant program application due Feb. 28. “The purpose of the video is to show these folks down in Washington, D.C. what a 9 foot low tide looks like. They’ve never been to Portland Harbor,” said Tom Bell of the Greater Portland Council of Governments. “And it’s to show them this project has broad support.”