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Article: Bid to halt Allagash bridge rejected Plans for construction of span to move ahead
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- February 7, 2008
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AUGUSTA - A handful of individuals and a conservation group lost
another round Wednesday in their campaign to prevent the state from
rebuilding a heavily used logging bridge within the Allagash
Wilderness Waterway.
In October 2007, staff with the Land Use Regulation Commission
approved a permit to replace the failing Henderson Brook Bridge,
which is a major river-crossing for logging trucks operating in the
Allagash region.
But six individuals and RESTORE: The North Woods appealed the
permit on grounds that the new permanent span would violate the
terms of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The appellants
also allege, among other things, that the replacement bridge would
degrade the ...