MAINE MONITOR • February 7, 2026
Deputy Commissioner Joyce Taylor of the Maine Department of Transportation said Thursday the agency is still open to other options for repairing the failing Machias Dike rather than simply rebuilding it as it is now. This contrasts with what many members of the Upper Machias Bay Master Plan Leadership Committee understood after a Jan. 27 meeting, where they said MDOT shifted its position from a year earlier and indicated it would support only an “in-kind” replacement that matches the current dike.