BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 7, 2026
It will now take about 1,500 truckloads of rocky material and topsoil to complete the final step of a yearslong process to remediate the Callahan Mine in Brooksville, a Superfund site. Work was most recently expected to wrap up there in 2026, but it may now stretch into 2027, according to state project manager Iver McLeod. The last step, capping waste rocks from metal mining that took place in the 1960s and ‘70s, will bring to a close 15 years of active, multimillion-dollar projects to clean up serious environmental contamination. Most of that funding comes from the federal government.