a little taste of what’s fresh
Franklin, Maine – A Watershed-Based Management Plan for Georges Pond provides clear goals and strategies for preventing future nuisance algal blooms in the pond by inactivating phosphorus in the lake’s bottom sediments and reducing phosphorus loading from developed land in the watershed.
Aroostook County, Maine – A Watershed-Based Management Plan provides a 10-year plan for strategies for improving water quality in the highly agricultural Cross Lake watershed.
Oakland, Belgrade, and Sidney, Maine – A Watershed-Based Protection Plan provides a 10-year roadmap to protect and improve the water quality in Messalonskee Lake.
Belgrade, Mount Vernon, & Rome, Maine – An update to an outdated watershed plan for Long Pond provided local conservation organizations with an overview of the current state of water quality in Long Pond, and a forward thinking action plan to prevent further water quality declines in this impaired lake.
Oakland & Smithfield, ME – An updated watershed management plan breathes new life into existing strategies to prevent algal blooms on East Pond.
Bangor, ME – Urban stream restoration planning at its best, this project investigates the sources of pollution affecting the stream and develops strategies to clean it up.