Owners of $3.5M Maine vacation home are 罰金d $215K for spraying HERBICIDES on next door neighbor's garden, 軍隊ing 除去 of 国／地域 and trees to decontaminate it
- Arthur 社債 III and Amelia 社債, of St Louis, Missouri, have been 罰金d for the?for the use of the 除草剤 tebuthiuron, not 広範囲にわたって known in Maine
- Amelia 社債 told Maine 明言する／公表する 捜査官／調査官s that in August 2021 she 購入（する）d in Missouri a 製品 with the 指名する Alligare, for their Maine holiday home
- She put it at the 底（に届く） of two oak trees she 'believed to be dying': they were not on her land, and the owner of the 隣接地の 所有物／資産／財産 告訴するd?
A high-profile Missouri couple has been 攻撃する，衝突する with $215,000 in 罰金s and 損害賠償金 after putting 除草剤 on two oak trees on land owned by their Maine neighbor, the 未亡人 of L.L. Bean's former 大統領，／社長.
Arthur 社債 III, 甥 of the former 知事 of Missouri and US 上院議員, 道具 社債, and his wife Amelia, 大統領，／社長 and CEO of the St Louis Community 創立／基礎, spent their summers at their $3.5 million vacation home above Laite Beach in Camden, Maine.
Amelia 社債 told Maine 明言する／公表する 捜査官／調査官s that she 購入（する）d in Missouri a four-続けざまに猛撃する 捕らえる、獲得する of a 化学製品 called Alligare, which in August 2021 she put on two oak trees she thought were dying.
The oak trees were on the 所有物／資産／財産 below hers, belonging to her neighbor.
By the に引き続いて summer, the 拒絶する／低下する of the oak trees was noticed by Lisa Gorman - whose husband Leon Gorman became 大統領，／社長 of L.L. Bean in 1967 に引き続いて the death of his grandfather, Leon Leonwood Bean.
Amelia 社債, who owns a holiday home in Camden, Maine, 認める using 除草剤 on oak trees owned by her neighbor
Lisa and Leon Gorman, the 大統領，／社長 and CEO of L.L. Bean, 設立するd by his grandfather. Leon died in 2015, 老年の 80
Leon Leonwood Bean 設立するd the Freeport, Maine-based company in 1912.
Lisa Gorman asked the landscapers Bartlett Tree 専門家s to look at the trees, and they took 国／地域 見本s.
Their 実験（する）s showed that the two oaks had been 扱う／治療するd with 除草剤, which had spread to other trees 含むing maple, blueberry and dogwood.
The 地元の 当局 in November 2022 also 実験（する）d the 場所／位置 and spoke to Amelia 社債, who 認める using the Alligare on the land.
It is not （疑いを）晴らす whether she knew the trees were not on her land, or why she 手配中の，お尋ね者 to use it on trees she believed to be dying.
Alligare is 述べるd online as 'a selective 除草剤 that 供給するs 効果的な broadleaf 少しのd and 小衝突 支配（する）／統制する in corn, small 穀物s, soybeans, rangelands, pastures, lawns, ornamentals, 権利s-of-way, some 刈るs, and aquatic 場所／位置s.'
On Tuesday, Bangor Daily News 報告（する）／憶測d the astonishing total 罰金.
Trees are seen on December 1, 2022 wrapped in red tape, まっただ中に the 調査 into the 除草剤
The Gorman home (left) sits 負かす／撃墜する the slope from the 社債 house (権利)
Trees 示すd with red spray paint are seen まっただ中に the 調査 into the 除草剤 use
The 社債s agreed to 支払う／賃金 $180,000 as a 刑罰，罰則 for the 違反s, 同様に as an 概算の $30,700 for 環境の 実験（する）ing and 監視するing, said Jeremy ツバメ, the Camden planning and 開発 director.
They will also be liable for the costs of 可能性のある 汚染 設立する on town 所有物／資産／財産.
The 社債s must also 支払う／賃金 $4,500 to Gorman for unlawful 使用／適用 of the 除草剤 Tebuthiuron - the 化学製品 指名する of the 製品.
Next month an 工学 会社／堅い will begin work 実験（する）ing surface and ground water for 汚染.
'The town of Camden is committed to 保護するing the 環境 and takes these types of 違反s very 本気で, as 論証するd by the 重要な 財政上の 刑罰，罰則,' said ツバメ in a 声明.
'The 社債s 認める 責任／義務 and worked to 解決する the 事柄 through counsel.'
