Article: Red Shield soot complaint unfounded

OLD TOWN - A complaint last week of soot from the stacks at the Red Shield Environmental LLC facility in Old Town falling on residences in Bradley couldn't be confirmed by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

"Some residents called in the middle of last week about another sooting incident over in Bradley," DEP regional manager Ed Logue said Monday. "We did investigate and really couldn't substantiate it."

There was an incident last spring where soot from Red Shield's stacks fell on Bradley, which is across the river from Old Town, but there was no danger, and the mill poses no threat to the public, Logue said.

At this time, Red Shield is continuing to burn green wood chips ...

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