WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Sen. Susan Collins issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Susan Collins delivered remarks at an event marking the official start of construction on the Camp Ellis Shore Damage Mitigation Project, a long-awaited effort to reduce shoreline erosion and storm damage in Saco. Other speakers included Saco Mayor Jodi MacPhail, Senator Angus King, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Adam Telle, and Colonel Justin Pabis-Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District.
As Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Collins secured $23 million (https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/senator-collins-secures-23-million-to-prevent-erosion-at-camp-ellis) last year to supp...