KINGFIELD – Members of the Water District voted Monday night to approve a decision made by committee Chairman Robert Barnes, certifying the Kingfield Water District has enough water to service a possible Poland Spring bottling plant.
Barnes sent a letter to Poland Spring Water Co. certifying the Water District will be able to provide the plant with 3,000 gallons of potable water per day, the amount the state requires to approve building permit applications. The letter was sent without committee approval in December after Barnes received notification the bottling company planned to submit an application to the state Department of Environmental Protection “around Jan. 3,” committee consultant Jack McKee said.
Poland Spring representative Mark Dubois and engineering firm Wright-Pierce Project Manager Jeffrey Preble attended Monday night’s meeting to discuss options for providing a possible Kingfield bottling plant with the a total of approximately 50,000 gallons of water per day the plant would require for operations. Dubois told committee members Poland Spring engineers are currently drilling around the proposed plant site, hoping to find a “water yielding zone” from which to draw.
Monday’s discussion did not yield any results, but according to McKee, the district’s meeting with Dubois and Preble was “very productive.”
“I appreciate them coming up and laying it out for us,” McKee said. The Poland Spring representatives “are being very open” about their process, he added.
Poland Spring representative Tom Brennan said Tuesday that the company will not submit a site plan review application to the DEP this week, explaining the application will not be ready for at least another three weeks.
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