Kennebec Journal editorial The end may finally be in sight for the long-running conflicts over the Fort Halifax Dam on the Sebasticook in Winslow. The dam is an integral part of the state and federal government’s plan to restore native, migratory fish such as alewives, shad, sturgeon and atlantic salmon to the upper reaches of Read More
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Company Seeks Approval to Buy Fort Halifax Dam
Deal Would Keep Dam, Build Fish Passage By Craig Crosby, Staff Writer Kennebec Journal news story WINSLOW — A Boston company is primed to purchase Fort Halifax Dam with the intention of saving it from destruction. Essex Hydro Associates has reached a deal in principle to purchase the dam from FPL Energy, said Barry Flynn, vice Read More
Mercury “Hot Spots” Found
By Lindsay Tice, Staff Writer Sun Journal news story The upper Androscoggin and upper Kennebec rivers are “hot spots” for mercury pollution, according to two studies published this month in BioScience, a peer-review journal. The studies identified five northeastern regions with high mercury levels in fish and birds. The hot spots include the Adirondack Mountain Read More
Cleanup of Hazards at Mill Site to Begin
By Betty Adams, Staff Writer Kennebec Journal news story AUGUSTA — The federal government Monday will begin a $1.4 million cleanup of hazardous materials at a defunct paper mill and its waste-water treatment plant along the east bank of the Kennebec River. An investigator called the cleanup “time-critical” and “necessary to prevent imminent and substantial Read More
Passages for Fish Opened in 1998
By Doug Harlow, Staff Writer Kennebec Journal news story Passage for sea-run species of fish, including alewives, shad, blueback herring and Atlantic salmon up the Kennebec and Sebasticook rivers is required by a 1998 agreement with the state of Maine, federal energy regulators, members of the Kennebec Coalition and hydroelectric dam owners. The Kennebec Coalition, Read More
Maine’s Newest River
by Jeff Clark Down East magazine August 2004 Five years after the demolition of Edwards Dam, the Kennebec has rebounded. Five years ago the Edwards Dam disappeared from the Kennebec River in Augusta. Today, no one misses it. Jim Thibodeau doesn’t miss it. The removal of Edwards Dam drained seventeen miles of dead-water impoundment below Read More
River Revival: Kennebec Teems with Life 5 Years after Dam Breach
by Susan M. Cover, staff writer Kennebec Journal news story AUGUSTA — The scientists from the Department of Marine Resources sit in their boat, in the middle of the Kennebec River, waiting. Like fishermen who flock to the banks of the river in Winslow hoping to land a shad or striped bass or maybe even Read More
Maine Dam May Serve as Preview
Removal of Edwards Dam in Maine provides some insight into what might happen after Embrey Dam is removed by Rusty Dennen The Free Lance-Star Thousands of people gathered around Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in July 1999 and cheered as heavy machinery carved a hole on one side of the structure. Among the throng Read More
Return of the Kennebec
More than a decade ago local, state, and federal officials, including then–U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, joined staff, board, and members of the Natural Resources Council of Maine and hundreds of other Mainers on the banks of the Kennebec River to witness a landmark occasion: removal of the Edwards Dam in Augusta. Read More
