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The longtime harbormaster sees his successor ideally as someone who knows this Schoodic Peninsula community and possesses both waterfront management experience and technological skills.
Late last spring, Prospect Harbor’s mudflats reopened and were reseeded after being closed due to pollution for 40 years.
At the Select Board’s meeting on Dec. 9, Gouldsboro Infrastructure Superintendent Jim McLean said DMR is aware of the failed water quality tests, and he expects the state agency to close Prospect Harbor to shellfish harvesting “for only one year,” not five years as initially anticipated.
McLean told Select Board members that one of the shorefront properties has a steel septic tank but lacks a leach field while the other has a malfunctioning field.
The crew improvised with old credit cards to cull through and extract live survivors from the Gouldsboro Shellfish Resilience project’s inaugural batch of 105,000 seed clams.