Work underway despite ongoing wrangle over environmental clean-up.
Demolition work is underway at the site of the former Holtra Chem plant.
Town leaders in Orrington recently sent out a newsletter informing residents that final building demolition is underway on the property, but the most controversial environmental cleanup work is yet to begin.
Last year the state board of environmental protection ordered Mallinckrodt, the former owner of the plant, to remove contaminated soils from two landfills and to cap another three landfills on site.
Yet Mallinckrodt is appealing most of that order and only starting work on the parts of the order not in dispute.
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