Poland Spring eyes Rumford, Fryeburg for new bottling plant, springs

POLAND — Spurred by strong sales, Poland Spring is looking for two additional spring sites and a home for its fourth bottling plant in Maine, a $50 million construction project.

The company bottled nearly 821 million gallons of water in the state last year. The new trio of projects could give it capacity for 400 million more.

The brand is the No. 1-selling bottled spring water in the U.S.

Mark Dubois, a Poland Spring geologist and natural resource manager, said it's broadly eyeing areas around Fryeburg, Rumford and northeast of Bangor for the bottling plant with very specific criteria: 60 to 120 acres, a flat grade, on a state highway and, ideally, near a railroad.

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