Wiscasset’s planning board Monday night OK'd the town's cleanup plan for the North Point fill area on North Point Road, off Birch Point Road. The site, now town-owned, was a dump for waste from the Mason Station power plant, according to the site plan application.

The preliminary work has been grant-funded and more grants will be sought if needed, project representatives have said. They have said about 160 feet of shoreline will be stabilized and the upland part of the site will get a Brownfields cover system.

Vice Chair Allen Cohen was on the board's recent site visit. He commented in Monday's meeting, "It's a natural to do this (project). It's amazing to me that this is a $700,000 project to do (that length of shoreline). But it's the government and layers and layers and layers of bureaucracy. But I see no issues ... whatsoever," he said.

"We went, we walked, we looked. (The project) makes all the sense in the world," Cohen added.