BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 1, 2025
State environmental regulators have approved new rules for shoreline restoration projects in Maine that streamline how they will be handled and encourage more use of natural solutions, after agencies were swamped with project applications following 2024’s devastating winter storms. But those regulators have also loosened the newly approved rules after engineers and construction firms spoke out against an earlier version of the proposal, which would have put stricter limits on the use of riprap, a material consisting of large rocks that’s often used in shoreline restoration.