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December 5, 2008

EPA orders mall cleanup

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection are ordering as many as 110 property owners in the Maine Mall area to reduce polluted runoff that ends up in the Long Creek watershed.

The mandate will affect properties with at least one acre of impervious surface, such as roof or parking lot, within the 3.5-mile watershed, including the Maine Mall, according to the Portland Press Herald. Property owners will in the short term be required to sweep streets and parking lots, clean up spills and keep salt or sand piles from washing away, and in the long term will be required to build detention ponds, plant trees and restore stream beds.

It is unknown how the cost of the larger projects will be allocated among the property owners, according to the paper.

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