CAMDEN — The Camden Select Board approved a five-year wastewater disposal agreement with the Town of Rockport, marking a significant step forward in regional collaboration and infrastructure…
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New Rockport Sewer Ordinance Task Force meets this afternoon
CAMDEN-ROCKPORT — After years of…
Rockport Select Board will set its…
Rockport Town Manager Jon Duke…
'Potential here for meaningful consequences for how Rockport funds wastewater treatment'
CAMDEN — Wednesday evening, Nov. 20, a small group of Camden and Rockport will gather in Camden Town Manager Audra Caler's office to advance the wastewater interests of both towns.
It has…
supports easing housing development costs
ROCKPORT — At its regularly scheduled Nov. 12 meeting, the Rockport Select Board approved a Samoset Resort sewer fee abatement, heard about the town’s requirement to produce another report to the…
Select Board Nov. 12 meeting
ROCKPORT — When the Rockport Select Board convenes Nov. 12, members will consider three sewer fee abatement applications, a request to install a pump station on Route 1 by a commercial building…
ROCKPORT — At a special meeting July 23, four Rockport residents and one Camden resident were named by the Rockport Select Board to a new…
Letter to the editor
Rockport resident Stephen Bowen points out in his letter to the Pilot on May 29, 2024, that the Rockport Resource has recently become…
ROCKPORT — While there have been no official talks with Camden, yet, about creating a bilateral effort to work together on sewer issues,…
ROCKPORT — The most contentious article on Rockport’s 2024 Town Meeting warrant – Article 3 — was decided at the polls June 11, and the proposed $33.7 million wastewater treatment facility and…
‘We’re saying it does not make sense. Let’s figure it out so that it does’
ROCKPORT — Article 3 on the Rockport Town Meeting 2024 warrant proposing a $33.7 million expenditure to build a new sewer facility has…
Letter to the editor
Since the start of Rockport’s sewer system in the early 1990s, over half of its wastewater has gone to Camden for treatment (the rest goes to Rockland).…
ROCKPORT — Nothing has to be decided in the near term, and there is room to adjust course; but either way, Rockport has to make progress…
Letter to the editor
Dear Rockport Voter,
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List of possible locations, preferred is Cramer Park
ROCKPORT — Monday evening, Feb. 13, the Rockport Select Board will vote on whether to ask the Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection to reallocate $1 million that was awarded to the town through…
Monday, 6 p.m., Town Office
ROCKPORT – The Rockport Select Board will meet Monday evening, 6 p.m., at the Town Office, for a one-hour workshop to address wastewater infrastructure investments, a water resource…
CAMDEN — Two years ago, Rockport filed suit in Knox County Superior Court…
‘RE: underpayment for the first quarter of FY22 wastewater treatment fees
ROCKPORT — Camden is demanding $146,452.72 in sewer bill payments from Rockport, with a deadline of May 2. If that is not met, Camden said it will file a claim of unjust enrichment in the Knox…
Rockport’s wastewater fees highest in area
Members of the Rockport Select Board were recently presented with a number of options for how and where the municipality’s wastewater is processed in the future, ranging from maintaining existing…
Concerts would be held Sunday, free to the public
ROCKPORT — On April 16 the Rockport Select Board unanimously approved a proposal which would allow small musical concerts to be held in Mary Lea Park over the coming summer. The idea was brought…
Authorize financing plan for new plow truck
Members of the Rockport Select Board voted Feb. 22 to approve a $5.8 million sewer extension project which would extend the town’s sewer line from Sea Light Lane to South Street. The town received…
Select Board meeting Feb. 22
ROCKPORT — The Select Board in Rockport will convene Monday evening, Feb . 22, at 5:30 p.m., via Zoom to review three bids to extend the sewer along Route 1 from the existing line terminus near…
‘Maine Water does not operate the town wastewater systems, nor do we determine what you must pay for those services’
A reader in Rockport recently wrote a letter to the editor of the PenBay Pilot and mentioned “the exorbitant increase in my sewer bill.” Maine Water would like to take the opportunity to explain…
Commission comprehensive wastewater study
ROCKPORT — Acting in their as Wastewater Commissioners, members of the Rockport Select Board voted unanimously Nov. 23 to approve a comprehensive study that is to examine the town’s current…
Water usage, municipal system cost increases create financial headwinds for customers
ROCKPORT — Armed with reports from staff, the Rockport Select Board, acting as the town’s Wastewater Commissioners, will address the issue of July wastewater bills that have distressed ratepayers…
Town staff is ‘getting to the bottom of it,’ per Select Board Chairwoman
ROCKPORT — One Rockport Village homeowner opened a $1,600 quarterly water and wastewater bill July 29. Another received a $700 bill for the last quarter, when a year ago it was $300 for the same…
‘Town is transitioning from quarterly billing to monthly billing because many residents were not paying their sewer bills in a timely manner’
Rockport residents on sewer and water lines inundated the Rockport Town Office July 28 with queries as to why their latest bills skyrocketed. In response, Town Manager William Post issued the…
