http://www.nrcm.org/rss.asp?f=2 NRCM Healthy Waters bdimond@nrcm.orgFri, 03 Sep 2010 03:19:59 EDTFuzzyRSS 1.0.1 http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3800On the banks of the Crooked River, a couple of miles up a dirt track near the town of Harrison, lies Scribner's Mill. Walking inside the old sawmill is like stepping back in time. As the river flows underneath the floorboards, pieces of machinery lie about the place, different types of saws, mainly.In one corner, Bonnie Trundy, of Hebron, is putting the finishing touches to a wooden barrel she'd s...bdimond@nrcm.orgThu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3791AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Board of Environmental Protection on Thursday ordered the former owner of the HoltraChem factory in Orrington to remove two large landfills from a site blamed for leaching massive quantities of mercury into the Penobscot River.By unanimous vote, the BEP rejected Mallinckrodt Corp.’s appeal of a 2008 cleanup order of the HoltraChem site from the Maine Departme...bdimond@nrcm.orgFri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3775WISCASSET - All of the permits are in hand, contractors' bids will soon be in and, within a few weeks, the Lower Montsweag Brook dam will start coming down.Built in 1968, the dam created a mile-long impoundment that served as a backup freshwater supply for the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant.In 2008, the Chewonki Foundation became the dam's owner in a settlement between state agencies and the own...bdimond@nrcm.orgFri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3768AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Board of Environmental Protection on Thursday presented a plan that would require the former owner of the HoltraChem factory in Orrington to excavate two large landfills and remove millions of pounds of contaminated soil from the riverfront site.But in a departure from the state Department of Environmental Protection’s stance, the board’s plan would all...bdimond@nrcm.orgFri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3769Can alewives coexist with small mouth bass in the St. Croix river? That was the focus of a public hearing hosted by the Canadian-American International Joint Commission in the Eastern Maine town of Princeton last night, where local fishing guides, biologists, and members of the public weighed in on a proposed plan to restore the alewife to the river that forms the eastern boundary with Canada.&#16...bdimond@nrcm.orgThu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3759HARRISON - Down a long dirt road and around a bend in what seems like the middle of nowhere, Scribner's Mill stands frozen in the 19th century.The complex of wooden buildings was once the site of a bustling sawmill that used the power of the Crooked River to turn logs into lumber, clapboards and shingles. Although the mill buildings have been restored to their glory days, the antique machinery in ...bdimond@nrcm.orgSun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3753When Samuel de Champlain visited the St. Croix River in 1605, he marveled at the quantity of fish being taken by the Wabanaki fishermen there. “In May and June,” he wrote, “so great is the catch here of herring [alewives] and bass [striped bass] that vessels could be loaded with them. The Indians resort thither sometimes five or six weeks during the fishing season.”Sadly, t...bdimond@nrcm.orgWed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3743AUGUSTA, Maine — State environmental regulators on Wednesday approved the final of three permits sought as part of a historic dam removal and fish habitat restoration project on the Penobscot River.The Maine Department of Environmental Protection signed off on the Penobscot River Restoration Trust’s proposal to decommission the Howland dam and build a new fish bypass that will enable A...bdimond@nrcm.orgThu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3738Local environmental advocates said Thursday they had sent letters to the owners of four hydroelectric dams, threatening to sue them under the U.S. Clean Water Act unless they take action to protect Atlantic salmon in the Kennebec River.The river's salmon, declared an endangered species last year by the federal government, are being killed as they pass through turbine blades at dams in Waterville, ...bdimond@nrcm.orgFri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3737DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — The Department of Environmental Protection on Thursday granted one of three permits requested by the Penobscot River Restoration Trust in its effort to restore native sea-run fish, including Atlantic salmon, to the Penobscot River watershed.The trust was given the go-head Thursday to decommission the Veazie Dam in Veazie and Eddington, Dana Murch, the DEP’s dams...bdimond@nrcm.orgThu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT