First Maine cleanup project selected for The Phoenix award 11.19.2009 – There are empty hulls of once prosperous paper making and textile mills all over Maine and New England that were abandoned decades ago and left to deteriorate with no hope of a future. City leaders did not want that to happen with the Eastern […]

$3.15 million to help replace deteriorating wooden cribwork 11.05.2009 – The banks of the Penobscot River have been slowly eroding over the past century and have started to threaten the city’s wastewater treatment plant, city leaders say. To combat the shoreline erosion, city officials applied for federal stimulus funds earlier this year to replace the […]

10.02.2009 – With eight modules loaded onto the ocean-going barge the Columbia Boston, Cianbro workers have finished building about 40 percent of the parts ordered by Motiva Enterprises LLC for its $7 billion refinery expansion in Texas. The latest load of refinery modules — heavy-duty industrial steel frames filled with pipes, pumps and wiring — […]

The Phoenix Award honors the transformation of ‘blighted and contaminated areas into productive new uses’ 10.01.2009 – When the Eastern Fine Paper Co. mill closed in January 2004, leaving behind half-buried hazardous waste, leaky oil tanks and other environmental dangers, city officials decided they had to take action to clean up the site and prepare […]

9.15.2009 – A large crane, pipe pile and precast concrete will leave the Eastern Manufacturing Facility today for a ferry repair project on Swans Island, company spokesman Alan Grover said Tuesday. The crane will be used to build six new dolphins for the $4 million Maine State Ferry Service project that Pittsfield-based Cianbro Corp. has […]

8.15.2009 – The modules local laborers are creating at the Eastern Manufacturing Facility for a massive refinery expansion in Texas are getting more detailed, and heavier, Joe Cote, Cianbro’s general manager, said Wednesday. Five modules, which are heavy-duty industrial steel frames filled with pipes, pumps and electronics, left on their trip to the Texas Gulf […]

7.21.2009 – Maine’s first-in-the-nation mail-in prescription drug disposal program, launched in 2007, has been funded for another two years and plans to expand its presence and impact significantly. The program aims to protect public health and the environment by safely disposing of unused prescription drugs. Prepaid, tamper-resistant envelopes available at drugstores, medical offices, community agencies […]

6.12.2009 – Capts. Doug Fournier and Tom Toolis spent this week preparing to take the second load of four locally built Cianbro refinery modules down the Penobscot River. The barge is scheduled to leave the Cianbro Eastern Manufacturing Facility’s deep-water bulkhead at around 11:30 a.m. today. The modules, which can be as large as six […]

5.07.2009 – The USDA Rural Development program has issued the city a low-interest loan to move and improve the septage dumping site and to purchase new video equipment to search out problems, said Kenneth Locke, environmental services director. U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development’s Water and Environmental Program issued the city $865,000, which will pay […]

1st of 4 units set for voyage to Texas 3.19.2009 – Loading the 200-ton refinery module onto an empty barge docked at Cianbro’s Eastern Manufacturing Facility bulkhead required an “engineered ballast plan,” but went better than planned, Bob Germack, project manager for Hake Rigging Co., said Wednesday after the module was settled on the seagoing […]