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AUGUSTA — Public works employees hosed down the Front Street parking lot to remove mud left by the receding Kennebec River.

The river overflowed its banks Monday afternoon rising to 14 feet – 2 feet above flood stage – and retreated by 6 a.m. today, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Augusta police had imposed a parking ban in the Front Street lot for Monday night.

Betty Adams is a general assignment reporter who’s lived in Augusta for the past 35 years and been working for the Kennebec Journal for more than two decades. She covers the courts plus the towns of...

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