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Poland Spring water sale hits roadblock

By Noel K. Gallagher Portland Press Herald Staff Writer July 10, 2008 09:33 AM

KENNEBUNK - A plan to sell municipal water to Poland Springs has hit a roadblock. The superintendent of the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Wells Water District is recommending that the issue be indefinitely tabled.

The trustees were scheduled to vote on the proposal on July 30.

Instead, the trustees will meet July seventeenth to vote on the recommendation by Superintendent Norm Labbe, company officials said this morning. The meeting will be held at 3 p.m. at the district offices in Kennebunk.

The proposal to let Poland Spring draw as much as 250,000 gallons a day from district-owned land in Wells prompted about 100 demonstrators to protest the deal at a trustee meeting late last month.

At that time, the trustees delayed voting on the proposal to allow time for an independent scientific review.