Caribou gets $4M from feds to clean up hazardous power plant site

Caribou gets $4M from feds to clean up hazardous power plant site

Caribou will get a $4 million federal boost to clean up the remains of its former power plant near the Aroostook River. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $38 million in brownfields funding on May 16 to benefit 25 projects throughout Maine. Caribou is the only community in northern Maine to receive a grant. The defunct power plant on lower Lyndon Street has been vacant for 13 years and contains metals, asbestos and other dangerou…