NORWAY — The Camp Creek music festival in August will not be affected by ongoing repairs to land cleared at the Oxford Fairgrounds last summer for the Nateva Festival.

Jim Britt, spokesman for the Camp Creek festival, said organizers do not intend to use the cleared area for additional camping during the event Aug. 5-7.

Planning Board Chairman Dennis Gray confirmed this week that last year’s application by the Oxford Agricultural Society to use the cleared area for Nateva campers remains tabled. No request has been made to reopen the application.

The Society was cited June 28 for violating the Stormwater Management Law, the Natural Resources Protection Act, the Erosion and Sedimentation Control Law and illegally discharging sediment for work done to clear 21 acres, including a hillside. Fifteen acres are in Norway; the rest in Oxford.

Mike Mullen of the Department of Environmental Protection enforcement division said this week that under the current status of the consent agreement between the Oxford Agricultural Society and the DEP, the 21 acres can be used even for camping at the concert.

“The site has all required permits,” Mullen said. “There are still some conditions of the permit that need to be met but there is a schedule proposed for completing the storm-water controls that, if met, will result in the project being in full compliance. In the meantime, its use is not restricted.”

DEP spokeswoman Samantha DePoy-Warren said the agency has revised the consent agreement, sent it out and has had initial feedback from the Society. “At this point, we are still discussing some details but things appear workable and the Society is actively working toward an administrative settlement,” she said.

More than 25 acts are expected for Camp Creek weekend. They represent such styles as soul fusion, improvisational jam rock, reggae, folk and a rocking drum-cello duo, Britt said.

Britt called the move of Creek Camp music festival to the Oxford Fairgrounds on Pottle Road “fortuitous,” as it took over the weekend reserved for the second Nateva Music and Camping Festival that was canceled this spring. Camp Creek will reap the benefits of Nateva’s last-minute cancellation, taking over bands and special amenities already in place, he said.

In a statement released this week, Britt said Camp Creek has held festivals around the East Coast from a private backyard in Connecticut to a barn in Maine. After a few years off, the festival returned in Rhode Island, then Connecticut followed by more than a decade in upstate New York.

Being back in Maine this year is “kind of a homecoming for us,” Scott Murawski of Max Creek Band said.

Max Creek will headline Saturday and Sunday and music will play on multiple stages, nonstop, over the weekend.

Three-day camping passes are available for $80. For more information and to purchase passes, visit http://maxcreek.com/campcreek.html.

ldixon@sunjournal.com

In addition to the Max Creek Band, the followuing bands have signed on to the festival as of June 9:

Adam Ezra

Alchemystics

Barika Ensemble

Depth Quartet

Dirigo

Dog Star Blue

Domino Theory

Dopapod

Exter vs Kimock

Flipper Dave

Fungus Amungus

Goosepimp Orchestra

Gypsy Tailwind

Kung Fu

McLovins

Rev Tor

Ron Noyes Band

Rustic Overtones

Ryan Montbleau Band

Sam Kininger Band

Sauce

The Brew

The Mallet Brothers

This Way

Viral Sound

Zach Deputy