BARTLETT — After years of apparent inaction, a Bartlett resident and businessman is wondering whether anything will ever be done to address the old town dump, which is eroding into the Saco River and putting metal and glass shards into the water.
Peter Gagne last Friday joined landowner Jim Iovino, whose wife, Donna, inherited the property from her father, the late Everett Ward in 1976, and the Sun for a tour of the old dump. The entrance to the site is off Route 302, across from Bart's Deli.
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