BROOKSVILLE – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold its first public information meeting to discuss activities planned at the proposed Callahan Mine Superfund Site.

The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, at the Brooksville Community Center.

Representatives from the EPA, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection will present information and will be available to answer questions.

The 150-acre Callahan Mining Corp. site operated between 1968 and 1972 as a open-pit, zinc-copper mine and is thought to be the only intertidal mine in the world during the time that it operated.

The EPA has proposed the former mine for inclusion on the National Priorities List. The NPL, also known as Superfund, is a list of hazardous waste sites that are eligible for federal funding to pay for extensive long-term cleanup.

The Callahan Mine site is located approximately 1,000 feet east-southeast of Harborside in Brooksville. The most recent study of the site was conducted by the Maine DEP in October 1999. Soil samples, tailings pond samples, tailings pile samples, waste rock pile samples, sediment samples, and surface water samples were collected at that time, according to EPA information.

The sediment samples showed contaminated sensitive environments and a contaminated fishery in Goose Pond.