Troubled Waters
Poland Spring's expansion plans have driven a wedge through western Maine.
By Virginia Wright
John Dill calls them "whisper trucks," the twenty-five or so Poland Spring tanker trailers that pass daily through the western mountain village of Kingfield on their way to and from the company's well in nearby Pierce Pond Plantation. Unlike the logging and lime trucks that rumble, always too fast, Dill says, through the center of town, the Poland Spring trucks stop at the stop sign, follow the speed limit, and rarely use their engine brakes. Dill, who is Kingfield's first selectman and the Kingfield Water District's treasurer, would like to hear a lot more of them.
