Wiscasset Town Manager Dennis Simmons told selectmen June 21 and in his written report ahead of the meeting, he, Maine Department of Environmental Protection and engineering firm Ransom Consulting did a final inspection June 17 of the cleaned up ash ponds at the former Mason Station. Seeding will be the town’s responsibility; silt fencing has been placed to keep loose soils out of the river, Simmons wrote.

He told selectmen in the meeting, the cleanup was a long process, years in the making. “It’s nice to see it done. It looks nice.”

According to Wiscasset Newspaper files, the town in 2018 won two, $200,000 Environmental Protection Agency grants that were expected to be used largely to dry and cap the ash ponds, where coal waste went when the power plant was running.

EnviroVantage of Epping, New Hampshire worked on the cleanup.