Friends of Merrymeeting Bay Cybrary (Cyber-Library)

In which we will collect publications, documents, and other materials pertinent to Merrymeeting Bay, especially ones which might not be otherwise readily available.

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Information on this page is divided into the general sections outlined below.
Click on a subject area, or scroll through the listings. Entries are alphabetical within subject area.

• Fish, Wildlife, Plants & Habitat
  Includes information on fish and wildlife in Merrymeeting Bay, salmon, American eel, sea lamprey, anadromous fish restoration, sturgeon, habitat, turtles, wetlands, Maine Natural Areas Program survey, & other topics.
  
  
• Hydrology, Geology, etcIncludes information about our research on currents in the Bay, hydropower, etc.
  
  
• Legal Documents & Petitions
  Includes documents related to legal cases such as dam relicensing to protect the American eel, endangered species protections, the proposal to put hydroelectric turbines in the Chops, etc.
  
  
• Miscellaneous
  Includes overview of environmental issues in the Bay, bibliography of environmental resources for the Bay, archaeology, interesting links, & other topics.
  
  
• Resource Management and Planning
  Includes Kennebec River Resource Mngmt. Plan, general Bay conservation materials, notes on comprehensive planning around the Bay, & other topics.
  
  
• Toxins, Pollution, and Water Quality
  Includes information on using caged mussels to test for toxins such as PCBs and dioxin in the Bay & tributaries, sources of Bay pollution, water quality testing in the Bay, & other topics.
  
  

• Androscoggin River Anadromous Fish Restoration Program (pdf: File size: 1.25 MB)
  Maine Department of Marine Resources
  Date: September 15, 2006
  
  
• Atlantic Coast Diadromous Fish Habitat:
  A Review of Utilization,Threats, Recommendations for Conservation, and Research Needs.
  Habitat Management Series #9
  January 2009
  Note: these are pdf files
  Cover, Title and Acknowledgement
  Table of Contents
  Ch. 1. Introduction
  Ch. 2. American shad
  Ch. 3. Hickory shad
  Ch. 4. Alewife
  Ch. 5. Blueback herring
  Ch. 6. Habitat Areas of Particular Concern for Alosines
  Ch. 7. American Eel
  Ch. 8. Atlantic sturgeon
  Ch. 9. Striped Bass
  Ch. 10. Threats to diadromous species
  Ch. 11. Diadromous Fish habitat Conservation and Restoration Recommendations
  Ch. 12. Future habitat Research Information Needs for diadromous species
  
  
• Atlantic Cod Stock Structure in the Gulf of Maine (pdf file 2 MB)
  Ted Ames
  vol 29 no 1,
  Fisheries Magazine
  
  
• Bald Eagle Management Goals and Objectives 2004 - 2019 (pdf file 2.1 MB)
  Maine Department of Inland Fish and Wildlife
  Adopted by MDIFW Commissioner and Advisory Council
  September 23, 2004
  
  
• Bald Eagle Management Guidelines and Conservation Measures (pdf file 39 KB)
  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  November 24, 2009
  
  
• Biological and Ecotoxicological Characteristics of Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Residing in Estuaries (link to web site)
  Rattner & Erwin
  US Geological Survey
  
  
• Building Fishways to Restore Diadromous Fishes to Connecticut (web page)
  Stephen Gephard
  CTDEP/Inland Fisheries Division
  Old Lyme, CT
  2007
  
• Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission: Selected Gulf of Maine Reports: 1873-1898 (link to web site
  Historical reports published by the U.S. Fish Commission relating to the fish and fisheries of New England, the Maritimes, and Atlantic Canada
  
  
• Coastal Fish Species Profiles by Species (link to web site)
  USGS National Wetlands Research Center
  
  
• Connectivity Presentation for Draft Atlantic Salmon Recovery Plan (pdf file 5 MB)
  National Marine Fisheries Service
  
  
• Damming of Maine Watersheds and the Consequences for Coastal Ecosystems (pdf file 7.5 MB)
  with a Focus on the Anadromous River Herring (Alosa pseudoharengus and Alosa aestivalis): A Four Century Analysis
  A Thesis Presented by Carolyn Jean Hall to The Graduate School in
  Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Marine and Atmospheric Science
  Stony Brook University
  December 2009
  
  
• Dams and Fish Migration (pdf file 137 KB)
  Michel Larinier
  Institut de Mecanique des Fluides, Toulouse, France
  
  
• Dams, fish and fisheries (pdf file 1.25 MB)
  Opportunities, challenges and conflict resolution
  Gerd Marmulla
  Fishery Resources Officer
  Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service
  Fishery Resources Division
  FAO Fisheries Department
  
  
• Dam Schematics for Androscoggin, Kennebec, Penobscot and St. Croix Rivers (jpg file 1.3 MB)
  Courtesy: Colby College
  
  
• Diadromous Fish of the Kennebec River (web page)
  
  
  
• Diadromous Fish: Species Information and Profiles
  Diadromous fish are those migratory species that require time in both salt and fresh water to complete their life cycle. There are two types:
  • 1. Anadromous fish live mostly in salt water and come into fresh water for spawning.
    Young fish may stay some time in fresh water using it as nursery habitat.
    Etymology: From the Greek anadromos, running upward.
    Maine has 11 anadromous fish species - Alewife, American shad, Atlantic sturgeon, Atlantic Salmon (also see legal documents below), Atlantic Tomcod, Blueback Herring, Rainbow Smelt, Sea-run Brook Trout, Sea Lamprey, Short-nose sturgeon, Striped Bass
  • 2. Catadromous fish live mostly in fresh water and run down to the ocean to spawn.
    Etymology: From the Greek kata, down.
    Maine has 1 catadromous fish species - American Eel (also see legal documents below)
  
  
  
• Discover the Kennebec: The Fisheries Resources of the Kennebec River (web page)
  Natural Resources and Educational Committees of the Kennebec River Council
  Harry Vanderweide, Chairman of the Study
  Ira L. Ellis, Cooperative Extension Service, Planning & Organizational Consultant
  April 18, 1986
  
  
• A Field Guide to Common Aquatic and Riparian Plants of New Hampshire (pdf file 4.2 MB)
  New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
  By Jen Drociak
  Volunteer River Assessment Program Coordinator
  March 2008
  
  
• Fishes of the Gulf of Maine (web page)
  By Henry B. Bigelow and William C. Schroeder
  FISHERY BULLETIN 74
  FISHERY BULLETIN OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
  Volume 53
  [Contribution No. 592, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]
  UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE - Washington: 1953
  
  
• Fish and Wildlife Resources in the Merrymeeting Bay and Lower Kennebec River Focus Area (web page)
  Prepared by: The Gulf of Maine Coastal and Estuary Project
  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  Falmouth, Maine
  March, 1994
  
  
• Fish Passage Reports
  2009 Lower Kennebec River NextEra Energy (pdf file 11 MB)
  2008 Lower Kennebec River NextEra Energy (pdf file 1 MB)
  Kennebec River Anadromous Fish Restoration 2008 Progress Report Maine DMR (pdf file 1.7 MB)
  Kennebec River Watershed Anadromous Fish Restoration Program Maine DMR (pdf; file size: 1.16 MB)
  
  
• Fish Passage Technologies: Protection at Hydropower Facilities (pdf file 1.2 MB)
  OTA-ENV-641 Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office
  September 1995
  
  
• Fish Passage Workshop Presentation (pdf file 9.4 MB)
  Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
  ASMFC Workshop on Fish Passage Issues Impacting Atlantic Coast States
  April 3 & 4, 2008
  Location: Jacksonville, Florida
  A continuous summary of presentations [each starting with page 1]
  1. State of the Art Fish Passage-Steve Gephart, CTDEP/IFD: 32 pages [slides]
  2. Passage Concerns for Striped Bass-R.W. Laney et al.: 11 pages
  3. Passage Technologies for River Herring, Shad, Sturgeon & Eel- Alex Haro, USGS: 24 pages
  4. Hydro Licensing in the US: An Overview-Mark Pawlowsky, FERC: 27 pages
  5. FERC Fish Passage Experiences from the Northeast-Melissa Grader, USFWS, Sean McDermott et al., NMFS: 10 pages
  6. Fish Passage in the Southeast...Building on Success-Prescott Brownell, NMFS, Wilson Laney, USFWS: 11 pages
  7. Comprehensive Fish Passage Mitigation in the Context of FERC Relicensing: The Southwest Region Perspective-NMFS: 13 pages
  8. FERC Case Studies: Kennebec River-Gail Wippelhauser, MDMR: 3 pages
  9. FERC Case Study: The Connecticut River-Melissa Grader, USFWS: 13 pages
  10. Susquehanna Fish Passage Issues-Michael Hendricks, PF&BC: 11 pages
  11. Fish Passage Restoration in the Santee Basin-Prescott Brownell, NMFS: 11 pages
  12. NOAA's Fish Passage Activities in the Northeast-John Catena, NOAA: 10 pages
  13. A State Perspective on Non-Hydropower Dams-Steve Gephart, CTDEP/IFD: 9 pages
  14. Fish passage & Restoration at Non-Hydro Dams-Brian Graber, Am. Rivers: 14 pages
  15. Projects on the Horizon-Alex Hoar, USFWS: 12 pages
  16. Small Barriers, Large Impacts: Impacts on American Eel Distribution in NY State-Leonard Machut, Tunisan Lab: 25 pages
  17. American Eel Passage Issues- Alex Haro, USGS: 12 pages
  18. Case Study: Upper Potomac River - Alex Haro, USGS: 9 pages

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  From slide 11 in presentation 6:
  Diadromous species represent a vital ecological link connecting inland river basins with coastal marine and estuarine ecosystems and valuable fisheries.
  Restoring productive marine fisheries for future generations of Americans may not be possible without also restoring diadromous fish populations.
  
  
• Fish Passage Effectiveness Report (pdf file 900 KB)
  Evaluation of Mitigation Effectiveness at Hydropower Projects
  Division of Hydropower Administration and Compliance
  Office of Energy Projects
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  October 18, 2004
  
  
• Freshwater Mussels
  (See Toxics section below for more information on how freshwater mussels are used to monitor toxins and pollution)
  
  
• Intersecting Histories in the Kennebec River, Maine: Migratory Fish & Edwards Dam. (pdf file 1.5 MB)
  A dissertation presented for the degree of Masters of Science
  Simon Beirne, University of Edinburgh
  May 15, 2009
  
  
• Kennebec Estuary Focus Areas of Statewide Ecological Significance (pdf file 800 KB)
  Beginning with Habitat
  Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife
  
  
• Maine Forest Service Fact Sheets on Insects & Disease (web page)
  Maine Forest Service
  
  
• Managing Deer Wintering Areas in Northern, Western and Eastern Maine (pdf: File size: 1.2 MB)
  Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.
  
  
• Merrymeeting Bay Aquatic and Upland Habitat Assessments: 1956-2009/ Sewall Aerial Photograpy/GIS Studies
  
  
• Merrymeeting Bay: Maine's Waterfowl Haven (pdf: File size: 3.1 MB)
  Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.
  Game Division Leaflet Series Vol 1, No.1 June, 1957.
  Howard Spencer Jr.
  
  
• Merrymeeting Bay Survey (pdf: File size: 188 KB)
  Maine Natural Areas Program
  Date: 1998
  
  
• NOAA Coastal Resource Coordination Fact Sheet for Maine (pdf: File size: 495 KB)
  (Notes NOAA Trust Species & Aeas of Special Concern {Merrymeeting Bay})
  
  
• NOAA Restoration Portal (Link to web site)
  
  
• Notices In Regard To The Abundance of Fish On The New England Coast In Former Times (pdf: File size: 3 MB)
  
  
• Penobscot Bay Watch: Fisheries News & Info (web page)
  Website dedicated to protection & wise use of Penobscot Bay & the Gulf of Maine
  
  
• Penobscot Bay Watch: 19th & Early 20th Century Marine Ecology & Fisheries Research Reports (web page)
  Digitized and uploaded to the internet by Ron Huber, Penobscot Baywatch, Rockland, Maine
  
  
• The Plight and Outlook for Migratory Fish in the Gulf of Maine (pdf file 340 KB)
  Andrew Goode
  Universities Council on Water Resources
  Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education
  Issue 134, Pages 23-28, July 2006
  
  
• The River Fisheries of Maine (pdf file 20 MB)
  By Charles G. Atkins, Maine's first Commissioner of Fisheries
  excerpt from the 1887 U.S. Gov't publication "Fisheries and Fishery Industries of America"
  
  
• Reconstructing the Gulf of Maine cod spawning grounds on the basis of local ecological knowledge (pdf file 256 KB)
  Ted Ames
  Vol 80, No 3675, pp. 1-9,
  Journal of Marine Biological Assessment, UK
  
  
• Revenge of the Nerds: The Story of Precocious Atlantic Salmon Parr (pdf file 418 KB)
  Douglas Watts
  Posted to Tispaquin's Revenge Blog
  September 28, 2009
  
  
• The Spatial and Relative Abundance Characteristics of the Fish Assemblages in Three Maine Rivers. 2002 and 2003. (pdf; file size: 6.0 MB)
  Kennebec River (Bingham to Merrymeeting Bay)
  Androscoggin River (Errol, NH to Merrymeeting Bay)
  Sebasticook River (Pittsfield, ME to Winslow, ME)

  Chris O. Yoder (Ohio U. and Ctr. for Applied Bioassessment & Biocriteria) and Brandon H. Kulik, John M. Audet, and Jeffrey D. Bagley (Kleinschmidt Associates)
  Date: Sep. 1, 2006
  
  

• The Demography, Nesting Status and Movement Patterns of Snapping Turtles, Chelydra serpentina in Merrymeeting Bay
  (about tracking turtles around Merrymeeting Bay - 93 MB Powerpoint file)
  Lucy Van Hook
  FOMB Presentation
  Department of Biology, Bowdoin College
  Date: April 12, 2006
  
  
• United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries
  Report of the Commissioner for 1872 and 1873
  Washington, DC
  • 1. APPENDIX E: OBSTRUCTIONS TO THE UPWARD MOVEMENT OF FISHES IN STREAMS, AND THE REMEDY.
    XXIII. ON FISH-WAYS. (pdf file 1.4 MB)
    By Charles G. Atkins 591
    Contents
    A. Introductory remarks 591
    B. Habits of migratory fishes 591
    C. The construction and location of fish-ways. 594
      1. Situation 594
      2. Attractiveness 596
      3. Ease of ascent 601
    D Devices which are in use or have been proposed 603
      1. Gap 604
      2. Trench or Cape Cod fish-way 604
      3. Oblique groove 605
      4. Step-fish-ways 606
      5. Smith's fish-way 607
      6. Cail's fish-way 608
      7. Pike's fish-way 609
      S. Steck's fish-way 610
      9. Inclined-plane fish-ways 610
      10. The Pennsylvania fish-ways 610
      11. The common rectangular fish-way 611
      12. Brackett's fish-way 612
      13. Fishways with oblique partitions 613
      14. General arrangement 614
    
    
  • 2. APPENDIX E: ON OBSTRUCTIONS TO THE ASCENT IN CERTAIN RIVERS
    XXIV. ON OBSTRUCTIONS TO THE ASCENT OF FISH IN CERTAIN RIVERS (pdf file 800 KB)
    Contents
    A. Obstructions in the rivers of Maine. By E. M. Stilwell 617
      Saint Croix River 617
      Pemmaquan River 617
      Dennys River 617
      Orange River 618
      East Machias River. 618
      Machias River. 618
      Wescongus or Pleasant River 618
      Narrarguagus River. 618
      Union River 618
      Penobscot River and tributaries. 618
      Saint George River 619
      Medomac River 619
      Damariscotta River 619
      Sheepscot River 619
      Kennebec and tributaries 619
      Presumpscot River 621
      Saco River and tributaries 621
      Mousam River. 621
      Salmon Falls River 621
    
    
  • 3. THE COD-ALEWIFE CONNECTION (pdf file 460 KB)
    This excerpt connects the health of Maine rivers to the health of the Gulf of Maine through access for migratory fish. It was cited incorrectly-wrong year, by Ted Ames in his 2004 paper on discrete cod populations which won him the prestigious McArthur "Genius" Award. It comes from the inroductory section of the Report of the Commisioner-Part A: Decrease in Food-Fishes.
    
    [A biologically interesting conclusion was reached by Baird regarding the probable cause of the reduction of cod and river fishes, both of which have declined in equal ratio. He stated in his report for 1872-73 (Baird, 1874) that "the reduction in the cod and other fisheries, so as to become practically a failure, is due to the decrease off our coast in the quantity, primarily of alewives; and secondarily, of shad and salmon, more than to any other cause."].
    From NOAA history: http://www.history.noaa.gov/stories_tales/wh_3.html
    
  
  
  
• 19th & Early 20th Century Marine Ecology & Fisheries Research Reports.
  http://www.penbay.org/history.html (link to web pages)
  
  
• Volunteers take on invasive plant in Bowdoinham WCSH Video link
  
  

• Biomonitoring Retrospective: Fifteen Year Summary for Maine Rivers and Streams (web page)
  Kennebec River Chapter (pdf)
  Maine Bureau of Land and Water Quality
  Date: 1999
  
  
• Current Study of Merrymeeting Bay
  
  
• Controls on Estuarine Morphodynamics: A Case Study on Merrymeeting Bay, Kennebec River Estuary, Maine (web page)
  
  Abstract from paper presented at the Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting
  Brad A. Knisley, et al.
  Date: Nov 5-8, 2001
  
  
• Edwards Dam
  
  
• The Effects of Changing Freshwater Inflow to Estuaries: A Georgia Perspective (pdf file 1.3 MB)
  Georgia Coastal Research Council
  November 2002
  
  
• Flow and Biogeochemical Fluxes in the Abagadasset River, Mid-Coast Maine (web page)
  Abstract from poster presented at the Geological Society of America, 40th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Section
  Christopher W. Proctor
  Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME
  Date: March 14-16, 2005
  
  
• Geographic Locations of Dams (pdf file: 6.3 MB)
  U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
  Gulf of Maine Coastal Program
  May 13,2009
  
  
• Geology of Maine
  Bedrock (pdf file: 4.9 MB)
  Surficial (pdf file: 3.7 MB)
  Department of Conservation, Maine Geological Survey
  Date: 2002
  
  
• Geology of Merrymeeting Bay Area
  Department of Conservation, Maine Geological Survey
  
  • Bedrock
    Bath 100 Quad - 2002 (pdf file: 4.8 MB)
    Bath 100 Quad Report (Bulletin 42) - 2002 (Link to web page)
    Bowdoinham 25 Quad - 2006 (pdf file: 2.1 MB)
    Bowdoinham 25 Quad Sidebar - 2006 (pdf file: 1.6 MB)
    
  • Surficial
    Bath 25 Quad - 2002 (pdf file: 2.3 MB)
    Bowdionham 25 Quad - 2003 (pdf file: 2.4 MB)
    Brunswick 25 Quad - 2001 (pdf file: 2.7 MB)
    Brunswick 25 Quad sidebar - 2001 (pdf file: 2.2 MB)
    Gardiner 25 Quad - 2009 (pdf file: 2.0 MB)
    Gardiner 25 Quad sidebar - 2009 (pdf file: 1.3 MB)
    Lisbon Falls North 25 Quad - 2003 (pdf file: 2.8 MB)
    Lisbon Falls North 25 Quad - 2003 (pdf file: 2.3 MB)
    Lisbon Falls North 25 Quad sidebar - 2003 (pdf file: 1.6 MB)
    Richmond 25 Quad - 2009 (pdf file: 2.6 MB)
    Richmond 25 Quad sidebar - 2009 (pdf file: 1.6 MB)
    
  
  
  
• History of ice Margins in NewEngland (pdf file:1.7 MB)
  Maine State Planning Office
  
  
• Hydropower Reform Coalition (web page)
  Group working to achieve improvements to rivers altered by hydropower dams.
  
  
• Lower Androscoggin Bathymetry: Gulf Island Pond Dam-Below Brunswick Dam. (pdf file 1 MB)
  Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Fisheries Division Region A-1982
  
  
• Maine Dam List by County (pdf file 294 KB)
  
  
• Riverbed-Sediment Mapping in the Edwards Dam Impoundment on the Kennebec River, Maine, By Use of Geophysical Techniques (pdf file 275 KB)
  USGS
  Dudley, R.W
  
  
• The Role of Freshwater Inflows in Sustaining Estuarine Ecosystem Health in the San Antonio Bay Region (pdf file 337 KB)
  Houston Advanced Research Center
  September 15, 2006
  
  
• The Turbidity Problem in the Eastern River, Dresden, Maine (pdf; file size: 3.3 MB)
  by ESR Inc, Geologic Consultants
  
  
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• Chops Tidal Energy Project
  
  
• Endangered Species Act: Petitions & Related Documents (Americal Eel and Atlantic Salmon)
  
  
• Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP)
  • Advocacy Work via petitions to modify Water Quality Certificates
    for dams on the Kennebec River, Androscoggin River and tributaries to protect American eels and native anadromous fish species
    
  • Ferraiolo Corp. Notice of Violation (pdf; file size: 96 KB)
    OR view HTML version with linked photos of site.
    Date: May 2, 2000
    
  • Merimil Limited Partnership, ORDER ISSUING NEW LICENSE (pdf: file size: 849 KB)
    Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
    Project No. 2574-032
    Date: March 4, 2005
  
  
• Maine Power Reliability Project
  
  1. GridSolar to ACE_2-09-10 (pdf: file size: 159 KB)
  2. GridSolar Brief 3-12-10 (pdf: file size: 1.9 MB)
  3. Ex 26. GridSolar Reply Brief 3-23-10 inc SierraClub (pdf: file size: 1.9 MB)
  4. GridSolar to ACE Cover Letter 04-09-10 (pdf: file size: 126 KB)
  5. Ex. 27 GridSolar - Exceptions to ER (pdf: file size: 64 KB)
  6. FOMB-ACE Comments 5-09-10 (pdf: file size: 24 KB)
  7. GridSolar reply 5-13-10 (pdf: file size: 365 KB)
  8. FOMB-ACE Supp. Comments 5-14-10 (pdf: file size: 17 KB)
  9. FOMB-ACE Letter 8-3-10 (pdf: file size: 20 KB)
  
  
• Presumpscot River
  
  
• Sears Island
  
  
• St. Croix River
  
  
• U.S. Supreme Court
  
  • SD Warren vs Maine Bureau of Environmental Protection (04-1527)
    This decision is pivotal for the biological, physical, & chemical integrity of our nation's waters For an excellent overview of the issues, visit the American Rivers website
    
    
  
  
  

• Annotated Bibliography of Environmental Information Relating to Merrymeeting Bay (web page)
  Compiled by Resource Services
  Ann Hayden
  Brunswick, ME
  Date: October, 1997
  
  
• Archaeological Survey of the Umberhind, Detweiler, and Gallant Parcels, Bowdoinham, Maine (pdf; file size: 24.8 MB)
  Leith Smith, Leon Cranmer, & Art Spiess
  Maine Historic Preservation Commission
  Date: August, 2006
  
  
• The Transient Town of Cork (pdf; file size: 1.8 MB)
  by Rev. Henry O. Thayer
  Read before the Maine Historical Society, December 9, 1892
  
  
• Duck Shooting on Merrymeeting Bay at the Darton Farms (pdf; file size: 3.2 MB)
  Back when you could ride the train to Bowdoinham
  
  
• The Ecological Collapse and Partial Recovery of a Freshwater Tidal Ecosystem (pdf; file size: 3.7 MB)
  John Lichter, et al.
  Northeastern Naturalist, Vol 13, No. 2, pp 153-178
  Date: 2006
  
  
• Evidence of a Prehistoric Pottery Kiln, Sebasticook River, Winslow, Maine (pdf file 1.4 MB)
  Douglas Watts
  Posted to Tispaquin's Revenge Blog
  October 6, 2009
  
  
• FOMB Live on MSN/Kashi (web site)
  Video for download (wmv; file size 50 MB) Tim Sheahan (Sheahan Productions)
  Essay (pdf; file size: 3.7 MB) Ed Friedman
  November 17, 2009
  
  
• Generating Electric Power in the Pacific Northwest; Implications of Alternative Technologies
  Overview (pdf; file size: 269 KB)
  Full Report (pdf; file size: 442 KB)
  This study takes an in-depth look at current status and future energy scenarios in the northwest focussing on hydro-electricity and natural gas the primary sources of today's power there. The report also looks closely at cost/benefits of multiple dam removals on the lower Snake River and the issue of safe passage for migratory salmon. The overview document homes in on the dam issue.
  RAND Corp.
  Date: 2002
  
  
• HISTORICAL EUTROPHICATION IN A RIVER–ESTUARY COMPLEX IN MID-COAST MAINE (pdf; file size: 334 KB)
  DORTE KOSTER, JOHN LICHTER, PETER D. LEA, AND ANDREA NURSE
  Biology Department and Environmental Studies Program, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 04011 USA
  Geology Department, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 04011 USA
  Laboratory of Paleoecology and Paleohydrology, Sawyer Research Center, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469 USA Ecological Applications, 17(3), 2007, pp. 765–778 by the Ecological Society of America
  
  
• Historical Summary of Federal Navigation Studies, Authorizations and Improvements & Federal Navigation Project Maintenance in the New England District MAINE (pdf; file size: 768 KB)
  Featured Highlights: Cathance River: Blue; KennebecRiver: Abbagadassett Ledge: Yellow; Beef Rock Dike & Training Wall [mouth of the Eastern River]: Red; Lovejoy Narrows: Green
  
  
  
• Merrymeeting Bay: An Environmental Review (web page)
  Prepared for Friends of Merrymeeting Bay with funding from the Davis Conservation Foundation
  By Ann Hayden, Resource Services
  Date: Jan. 5, 1998
  
  
• PEARL Database (web page)
  "A forum for sharing environmental data from Maine... lakes, streams, wetland, and terrestrial systems."
  Site maintained by the University of Maine, Senator George M. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research
  
  
• A Summary of Existing Research on Low-Head Dam Removal Projects (pdf; file size: 2.4 MB)
  Requested by: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Standing Committee on the Environment
  Prepared by: ICF Consulting
  In association with Woodlot Alternatives, Inc.
  Date: September, 2005
  
  
• Weed Control Methods Handbook: Tools and Techniques for Use in Natural Areas (web page)
  Authors: Mandy Tu, Callie Hurd, & John M. Randall
  Version date: April 2001
  
  

• Management Plan for Butler Head, Bath (web page)
  Bath Community Forestry Committee
  Date: Feb. 17, 1999
  
  
• Kennebec River Resource Management Plan: Balancing Hydropower Generation and Other Uses (web page)
  Document includes Introduction, Ecological Characterization of Kennebec River Basin, Hydropower Regulation, Resources and Beneficial Uses, (Water Quality, Fisheries (inc. fish life histories), Recreation and Scenic Resources, Archaeology), Municipal Planning, Criteria for State Agency Decision Making, Summary of Recommendations
  (Click here to download as a pdf; 731 KB)
  Natural Resources Policy Division, Maine State Planning Office
  Date: February 1993
  
  
• Lower Kennebec River Comprehensive Hydropower Settlement Accord & Related Filings (pdf file 4.8 MB)
  This is the complete agreement including exhibits pertaining to the removal of Edwards Dam.
  For complete library of all Federal Energy Regulatory Commission documents relating to Edwards (Docket P-2389),
  go to this FERC link: http://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/docket_search.asp - Insert P-2389 into blank for docket number].
  May 26, 1998
  
  
• Learning the Lay of Their Land (pdf file 247 KB)
  Data Recording by Maine Land Trusts
  Patrick J. Roche
  Environmental Studies Program
  Colby College, Waterville, Maine
  May 8, 2009
  
  
• Merrymeeting Bay: A Guide to Conservation of this Unique Resource (web page)
  Reed & D'Andrea
  Date: 1975
  
  
• Merrymeeting Bay Notes: Notes for Comprehensive Planning in the Bay Region (web page)
  Becky Koulouris, Edward L. Hawes, Franklin Burroughs, Lawrence H Simon, Richard W. Judd, & Nathan D. Hamilton
  Environmental Studies Program, Bowdoin College
  Maine Humanities Council
  Date: 1990
  
  
• PEOPLE IN NATURE: ENVlRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE KENNEBEC RIVER, MAINE (pdf file 4 MB)
  Daniel J. Michor
  A THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts (in History)
  The Graduate School, The University of Maine
  Date: May, 2003
  
  
• Sears Island Development Issue
  • Army Corps of Engineers/ Maine DOT Umbrella Wetland Mitigation Bank Proposal Public Notice (web page)
    Date: June 10, 2008
  • Public Comments on Umbrella Wetland Mitigation Bank Proposal Sponsored by Maine DOT and Army Corps of Engineers (pdf file 4.1 MB)
    July 2008
  • Denial of Public Hearing on Umbrella Wetland Mitigation Bank Proposal (pdf file 424 KB)
    ACOE
    Date: August 4, 2008
  • Umbrella Mitigation Meeting Notice and Plan for Sears Island (pdf file 511 KB)
    Army Corps of Engineers
    Date: February 3, 2008
  • Sensible Transportation Policy Act - Rules (pdf file 342 KB)
    REPEALED AND REPLACED: September 10, 2008
  • Sears Island Conservation Easement (pdf file 2.5 MB)
    State of Maine
    Date: January 22, 2009
  • Douglas Watts Complaint (pdf file 78 KB)
    Date: February 19, 2009
  • Ron Huber Complaint (pdf file 124 KB)
    Date: February 19, 2009
  • EPA letter RE: Public Notice 2008- 1703 Sears Island Mitigation Bank (pdf file 279 KB)
    Environmental Protection Agency
    Date: March 18, 2009
  • PEER Letter RE: Comments on NAE-2008-1703, Maine Department of Transportation Umbrella Mitigation Bank (pdf file 45 KB)
    Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
    Date: March 31, 2009
  • Amy Browne interviews Kyla Bennett of PEER about EPA's letter (mp3 file 31 MB, 26 min)
    WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine, RadioActive News Journal
    Date: April 2, 2009
  • Sears Island litigation links
  • some interesting photos at the Penobscot Bay Blog
  • Sears Island suits to proceed separately (web page)
    The Republican Journal, By Tanya Mitchell, Reporter
    Date: April 8, 2009
  • Five firms seek to market Sears Island (web page)
    The Republican Journal, By Tanya Mitchell, Reporter
    Date: April 15, 2009
  
  
  
• State of the New Meadows River (pdf file 2.3 MB)
  A report on the current environmental and resource status of the New Meadows River and surrounding watershed
  Prepared for New Meadows River Watershed Project Steering Committee
  by Christopher S. Heinig, MER Assessment Corporation
  April 16, 2002
  
  
• St. Croix River See also: Alewives
  • St. Croix Report-Forrest Bell-7-105-10 (pdf file 2.4 MB)
    July 22, 2010
  • Doug WattsUSEPARequest (pdf file 153 KB)
    July 7, 2010
  • FOMB EPA St Croix Letter (pdf file 30 KB)
    July 19, 2010
  • Shenanigans on St. Croix : Alewives get smoked again (pdf file 66 KB)
    Bangor Dail News Guest Column
    Ken Hardy
    July 27, 2010
  • FOMB Comments to St. Croix Int’l Watershed Board (pdf file 113 KB)
    St. Croix Int’l Watershed Board (link to all comments)
    August 13, 2010
  • Doug Watts EPA Supplementary Letter (pdf file 96 KB)
    August 17, 2010
  • Doug Watts to EPA Follow-up Letter Re. St. Croix (pdf file 114 KB)
    August 18, 2010
  
  
  
• Swan Island
  • Undated Overview I.F.&W. Swan Island (pdf; file size: 124 KB)
  • Swan_Island_Masterplan (pdf; file size:105 MB) winter 1999-2000
  • Memo 1/7/2003 on Swan Island Funding Agreement (pdf; file size: 4.8 MB)
  • Gardiner-Dumarseq House 3/19/2008 Condition Summary by Structures North (pdf; file size: 286 KB)
  • FOMB 3/19/2008 Comments to I.F.&W. (pdf; file size: 170 KB)
  • Swan Island History & Self Guided Tour (pdf; file size: 28 MB)
  • A Report to the Joint Standing Committee on Inland Fisheries & Wildlife (pdf; file size: 1.1 MB)
    L.D. 398 -- Resolve, To Develop a Management Plan for the Nonwildlife Components of Swan Island and Little Swan Island in Perkins Township, Sagadahoc County
    Submitted by: Roland D. Martin, Commissioner
    February, 2010
  
  
  

• Androscoggin River Fact Sheet (web page)
  Androscoggin River Alliance
  February 24, 2005
  
  
  
• Androscoggin River History Presentation (pdf file 4.3 Mb)
  Androscoggin River Alliance
  2006
  
  
  
• Androscoggin River Upgrade Proposal
  Submission Guidelines (web page 24 KB)
  FOMB Andro Upgrade Proposal (web page 17 KB)
  Dissolved Oxygen Data (web page 96 KB) Excel file (35 KB)
  Fecal Coliform Data (web page 80 KB) Excel file (44 KB)
  2005-2008 Andro Bacteria Minus October Anomalous Flows (web page 139 KB) Excel file (43 KB)
  2008 Water Reclassification Summary with DEP Recommendations (pdf file 150 KB)
  BEP Public Hearing Recommendation September 18, 2008 (pdf file 20 KB)
  BEP Public Hearing Transcript September 18, 2008 (pdf file 301 KB)
  Lewiston Joins Effort to get River Water Quality Elevated October 1, 2008 (web page 4 KB)
  Conservation Law Foundation Written Comments October 2, 2008 (pdf file 1.3 MB)
  MDEP ReClassification Response to Comments October 29, 2008 (web page 110 KB)
  Sun Journal Editorial November 2, 2008 (web page 5 KB)
  Times Record Letter November 4, 2008 (web page 6 KB)
  FOMB testimony on LD 330. River Reclassification Androscoggin Upgrade February 17, 2009 (web page 17 KB)
  Sun Journal Staff Article February 20, 2009 (web page)
  Sun Journal Staff Article April 17, 2009 (web page)
  Times Record Editorial July 17, 2010 (pdf file 58 KB)
  Sun Journal Staff Article August 15, 2010 (pdf file 160 KB)
  
  2009 Lower Androscoggin River Water Monitoring and Upgrade Report
  • Water Quality Data Analysis and Review, Lower Androscoggin River (pdf file 1.3 MB)
    Friends of Merrymeeting Bay & Applied Biomonitoring
    February 8, 2010
  • FINAL Graphs & Tables (pdf file 2.2 MB)
    Apr - Sep 2009
  • Applied Biomonitoring Biosketch (pdf file 33 KB)
  
  NMI Studys - Real Estate Benefits of Clean Rivers
  • Buffalo (pdf file 2.4 MB)
  • Sheboygan (pdf file 2.7 MB)
  
  2008 Letters of support for Andro Upgrade proposal
  • Brunswick (pdf file 2.6 MB)
  • Durham Page 1 (pdf file 2.1 MB)
  • Durham Page 2 (pdf file 1.6 MB)
  • Lewiston (pdf file 52 KB)
  • Topsham Page 1 (pdf file 2.0 MB)
  • Topsham Page 2 (pdf file 1.7 MB)
  • Auburn Sewage District (pdf file 44 KB)
  • Bruns-Tops Land Trust Page 1 (pdf file 2.7 MB)
  • Bruns-Tops Land Trust Page 2 (pdf file 1.7 MB)
  
  2010 Letters of support for Andro Upgrade proposal
  • Brunswick (pdf file 58 KB)
  • Topsham Resolution (pdf file 49 KB)
    Support letter (pdf file 56 KB)
  • Lewiston (pdf file 52 KB)
  
  
  
• Belted Kingfishers (Ceryle alcyon)
  as indicators of methyl mercury availability in aquatic systems (1997-2003) (pdf file 808 KB)
  
  
• Case for Caution revisited:
  Health and Environmental Impacts of Application of Sewage Sludges to Agricultural Land (pdf file 750 KB)
  Ellen Z. Harrison, retired Director, and Murray McBride, Director,
  Cornell Waste Management Institute, Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences, Rice Hall,
  Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. (cwmi.css.cornell.edu)
  September 2008
  
  
• E. coli Monitoring – Effective Techniques and Test Kits for Volunteers (pdf file 499 KB)
  Dr. Lois Wolfson
  Michigan State University
  Michigan Clean Water Corps Conference
  October 16, 2007
  
  
• Freshwater Mussels & Testing for Toxins
  (For basic info on freshwater mussels, see also above section on fish & wildlife)
  
  
• Integrating Ambient and Compliance Monitoring in the Kennebec River Basin (pdf file 146 KB)
  Paper presented at the National Water Quality Monitoring Council Conference
  Keith Robinson & David Courtemanch, U.s. Geological Survey
  Date: July 7-9, 1998
  
  
• Introduction to Bacteria Monitoring of Surface water for Volunteers (pdf file 389 KB)
  Stacey Moulds
  Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
  February 7, 2004
  
  
• Lead toxicity reference site
  Pomology.org website
  
  
• Maine Biological and Nutrient Criteria (pdf file 2.3 MB)
  Tom Daniellson and Dave Courtemanch
  Maine DEP
  February 27, 2008
  
  
• Maine DEP Dioxin Monitoring Report (pdf: File size: 1.8 MB)
  Date: 2000
  
  
• PAN Pesticide Ecotoxicity Study Index for Aquatic Organisms
  PesticideInfo.org website
  
  
• Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now (pdf file 7.6 MB)
  President's Cancer Panel Report
  April, 2010
  
  
• State Legislation for Secure Medicine Return: (pdf file 1.4 MB)
  A Comparison of Maine and Washington
  Ann Pistell, Maine Department of Environmental Protection
  Cheri Grasso, Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County
  October 2009
  
  
• Surface Water Ambient Toxics Monitoring Program (SWAT) (Link to Maine DEP)
  2005 Monitoring Program Report
  Maine’s Surface Water Ambient Toxics (SWAT) monitoring program was established in 1993 (38 MRSA §420-B) to determine the nature, scope and severity of toxic contamination in the surface waters and fisheries of the State.
  
  
• Sediment Reports
  
  
• Smoke Gets in Your Lungs: Outdoor Wood Boilers in New York State (pdf; file size: 764 KB)
  Office of the Attorney General of New York State, Environmental Protection Bureau (10/05)
  
  
• Toxic Polution in Casco Bay
  Chapter 5 of the Casco Bay Plan
  Casco Bay Estuary Partnership (CBEP)
  1996
  
  
• Treating Contaminants of Emerging Concern (pdf file 5.6 MB)
  A Literature Review Database | Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products
  US EPA
  August 2010
  
  
• Friends of Merrymeeting Bay Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program and Data
  
  
• FOMB/DEP Volunteer River Monitoring Program: Sampling & Analysis Plan & Appendices
  Androscoggin River - Friends of Merrymeeting Bay (FOMB)- {counties: Androscoggin, Sagadahoc, Cumberland}
  
  • Sampling and Analysis Plan (SAP)
  • Appendices specific to FOMB
    • Appendix C:Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
      • SOP-VRMP-01. Methods for Collecting Water Grab Samples in Rivers & Streams.
        • (SOP-VRMP-01 Appendix D - acceptable water collection equipment.)
      • SOP-VRMP-02. Methods for Selecting and Documenting Site Locations for Volunteers in the Maine VRMP.
      • SOP-VRMP-08. Methods for Using the YSI 85 Handheld Meter in Rivers & Streams.
        • (Appendix A.)
      • SOP-VRMP-12. Methods for Using the IDEXX Colilert® Test Kit and IDEXX Quanti-Tray/2000.
        • (Appendices A, B, and C.)
    • Appendix D: data sheets (field datasheet [Tier1], D.O. depth profile datasheet, IDEXX Colilert datasheet)
    • Appendix G: (coversheet) : site descriptions and photographs
      
  • Common [Core] Appendices
    • Appendix A: Data Quality Objectives (VRMP QAPP-Table 3a).
    • Appendix B: Frequency of Precision Measurements (VRMP QAPP-Table 3c).
    • Appendix C: standard operating procedures (SOPs)
      (Note: SOPs are located on a separate webpage. An individual group's Sampling and Analysis Plan specifies which particular SOPs apply to the group. If you would like to get back to this page, click the "Back" arrow or button on your Internet browser.)
    • Appendix D (coversheet): Field data sheets and IDEXX bacteria lab sheets.
    • Appendix D-A-1 [field datasheet - Tier 1] [not specific to any particular volunteer group]
    • Appendix D-A-2 [field datasheet - Tier 2] [not specific to any particular volunteer group]
    • Appendix D-B [D. O. depth profile datasheet]
    • Appendix D-C [IDEXX Colilert datasheet]
    • Appendix E: Sample Holding Times and Preservation (VRMP QAPP-Table 3d).
    • Appendix F: Site Location Form
    • Appendix H: Sampling Position Requirements (VRMP QAPP-Table 4a).
    • Appendix I: Maintenance, Testing and Inspection Procedures (VRMP QAPP-Table 5a).
    • Appendix J: Data Management Overview (VRMP QAPP-Section 5.10).
    • Appendix K: Criteria used to Review/Validate Data (VRMP QAPP-Table 6).
    • Appendix L: IDEXX Lab QA-QC Steps (from VRMP QAPP Appendix 11).