Winds gusting between 20 to 40 knots, plus a high tide around noon pushed the river waters nearly over the bank, and into Damariscotta’s back parking lot Thursday, Dec.3.
As the winds whipped the waters under the Twin Villages bridge, the waters lapped the bottom siding of Sproul’s Furniture store, but the building and contents escaped damage.
Jim York, a salesman, said the roaring waters did not make it into the store.
“We were prepared but there was no damage. It did not make it into the floor,” he said. “It has been quite a few years since the water came in.”
Mary Bowers, the superintendent of the Great Salt Bay Sanitary District, put down a layer of thick plastic sheeting anchored by sand bags over the access panels of two lift/pump stations in the parking lot.
Bowers feared saltwater could leak into the access panels and damage the powerful pumps that force sewage from the system up to the sanitary district processing facilities.
As water backed up in storm drains flooding parts of the parking lot, Bowers was parked not far from the pumps watching waters as they periodically lapped over the shore into the parking lot. At about noon, the tide turned, waters receded and Bowers returned to her office.
Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency reported a few streets were “quietly” flooded and some water came into the parking lots and streets in East Boothbay, but no damage was reported.
