BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 25, 2025
Canadian company Daaquam Lumber has paid $240,000 in fines to resolve wastewater violations at a Masardis mill it once owned. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the company entered into a consent agreement in May. Both the DEP and the state attorney general’s office signed off on the case on Monday, Since 2022, the company has addressed some of the violations, but didn’t stop the discharge of pollutants and raw materials into waterways, according to DEP. It also failed to train employees to minimize pollution and did not collect wastewater samples as directed.