Grand Lake Dam - Washington County Maine

Since this shot was taken, a mostly unknown but significant controversy has erupted about this little dam, which holds back a lake of 14340 acres (58 square kilometers). U.S. Federal regulations require this dam to maintained to certain specifications. This dam is owned by a nearby paper mill which was just purchased by a Hong Kong consortium, which may choose to close the mill and destroy the dam to avoid the expensive dam renovations ... thereby eliminating 400 factory jobs, and an entire fishing/boating tourism industry in already impoverished Downeast Maine. To say nothing of the broad-reaching environmental impact of reducing a huge lake to a marsh with stream running through it. An economic and environmental disaster looms, based on the whim of a bottom-line accountant half a world away.