BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 25, 2025
A group of towns in Hancock County is making plans to take ownership of two dams that a scrap metal company wants to get rid of. This month the Legislature approved, and Gov. Janet Mills signed into law, three bills that are aimed at allowing quasi-municipal watershed management districts to be formed to own and maintain dams on Alamoosook Lake and Toddy Pond. The towns that surround these lakes — Orland, Blue Hill, Surry and Penobscot — have been worried since last summer that the company that owns the dams could just abandon the properties, risking a severe reduction of water levels.