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50 years of progress: Mainers celebrate Clean Water Act anniversary in Lewiston

Por: Portland Press Herald Nation September 30, 2022

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Former Auburn Mayor Jonathan LaBonte speaks Thursday during the celebration marking 50 years of the Clean Water Act at Simard-Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal LEWISTON — Alan Haley remembers when everything from henhouse waste to trash was dumped into Maine’s rivers. “Somehow it just magically disappeared – until there was just too much of it,” Haley, the state’s first whitewater rafting guide, said. Today,... + full article



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