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Stream Connectivity Working Group
The SCWG is a forum, networking and coordinating group that informs, leverages, and enhances the work of on-the-ground restoration practitioners and planners in Maine. We achieve this through … Read more about Stream Connectivity Working Group
Advocating for the Mousam River
Undamming the Mousam River The Mousam River watershed contains 349 miles of river and streams and drains a total area of about 117 square miles. It covers portions of the towns of Acton, Shapleigh, … Read more about Advocating for the Mousam River
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Photosimulation of the Royal River with the Bridge Street Dam removed. The Royal River flows nearly 26 miles from its source in Sabbathday Lake in New Gloucester to its mouth in Casco Bay in … Read more about Royal River Restoration
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Another Maine alewife success story featured in National Geographic, as we approach restoration of our own alewife run into China Lake, expected to number close to a million alewives once complete.
If you unbuild it, they will come—the fish, that is
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Maine pioneered dam removal to restore salmon runs. Now millions of fish, among them alewives, are swimming upriver again to inland spawning grounds.We are pleased to announce that the mobilization has begun for construction of a fishway at the Box Mill Dam on Outlet Stream in Vassalboro, Maine. CPM Constructors has begun to move equipment on site, and begun building concrete forms and wooden baffles. Major construction will begin July 15, with the start of our in-water work window. This dam is the first obstacle that alewives currently encounter when attempting to return to spawning grounds in China Lake. In order of construction, this is the fourth dam that we have removed or built a fishway on since 2017. In 2021 & 2022, we plan to address the final two dams, after which a run of close to a million alewives is expected to return to China Lake!
