High Water Mark [Corrected 03/22/05] ; Ambitious Plans for an Oceanfront Park - a Living Monument to the City's Historic and Unbreakable Bond with the Sea - Are Coming in with the Tide.

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Beyond the chain-link fence, the land gently slopes toward Portland Harbor.

Tall weeds poke through crusty snow. Underneath are rotted pilings and mounds of waste material dredged from the harbor and dumped over 20 years.

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High Water Mark [Corrected 03/22/05] ; Ambitious Plans for an Oceanfront Park - a Living Monument to the City's Historic and Unbreakable Bond with the Sea - Are Coming in with the Tide.

Except for the view, there's little appealing about the place where Bath Iron Works used to build Navy destroyers.

But what a view.

Working in conjunction with the state, the city has chosen this half-acre site on the industrial eastern edge of Portland Harbor as the spot for the most ambitious public art project in the history of Portland, with a likely price tag of between $500,000 and $1 million.

The park, which would be ho...

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