MAINE MONITOR • January 25, 2024
State environmental regulators have proposed a $148,836 fine for Tower Solar Partners, a Delaware-based solar company, after concluding that the company failed to control erosion on a project along the Kennebec River in the Somerset County town of Embden. In documents released this week, Maine Department of Environmental Protection officials outlined a string of violations, including inadequately installed and maintained erosion controls that allowed sediment to flow into the nearby Kennebec River and Alder Brook. At one point, 30 acres of the 35-acre site were disturbed and unstable, three times the amount allowed under department rule.