In a brief meeting of the Edgecomb Board of Selectmen May 16, the Board updated the town on the recent procurement of Wiscasset Bypass information from the state by the Edgecomb Bypass committee.
The committee, formed as an effort to thwart potential bypass alternatives that would affect the town, has begun receiving the data after requesting documents through the Freedom of Information Act.
“What we will have to do is carefully go over the information,” said Board Chairman Jack Sarmanian. “The documents go back over four years and will help us in this continued effort.”
Sarmanian, a member of the committee, said the group was discussing ways to respond to any bypass developments in the near future. Currently, the DOT has delayed any decision on the bypass until budget concerns at the state level can be sorted out. In a proactive move indicative of the committee’s increased urgency over the issue, Sarmanian said a letter was being drafted to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar in hopes of guidance.
Edgecomb residents have been on edge since the N8c bypass route was scrapped by the DOT in November over concerns of an active eagle’s nest on Davis Island. With the N8c route no longer in play, any alternative would have Edgecomb bearing the “brunt of the impact” said Sarmanian.
“We will continue to be proactive in our fight,” said Sarmanian in previous comments.
The Edgecomb Board of Selectmen will next meet on May 23 at 6 p.m.
