New laws will help a group of towns take over Bucksport-area dams

New laws will help a group of towns take over Bucksport-area dams

After getting an assist from state officials, a group of towns in Hancock County are making plans to take ownership of two dams that a scrap metal company wants to get rid of. This month the Legislature approved, and Gov. Janet Mills signed into law, three bills that are aimed at allowing quasi-municipal watershed management districts to be formed to own and maintain dams on Alamoosook Lake and Toddy Pond. The towns that surround these lakes — O…