On October 6, 2020, from 10am to noon, Maine Dredge Team will meet virtually using the Microsoft Teams technology. AGENDA Click here for info on joining the meeting.
At dredge team meetings, navigation projects large and small that involve excavating out an area of our bay floors, GOM-floor or river floors - and moving the "spoils" to another location - come under discussion by municipal, state and federal officials with dredging part or all of their mandates. Along and with environmentalists and others joining in as the interested public, presenting as well.
The dredge team also reviews proposed or ongoing ecological restoration projects - often more of them than navigation projects. As the minutes of the March 3, 2020 meeting and the October 4, 2019 bear witness to .
At the March 13 meeting, ACOE 's Mark Habel said there were no large scale dredging projects underway in Maine. He then gave updates on the status of small-scale navigation improvement projects presently under consideration in Blue Hill Harbor, Great Chebeague Island. Surry and Brooksville
Non-navigation projects considered at the March 13, 2020 meeting included Pleasant Point (shore protection riprap), Cherryfield Dam on the Narraguagus River (modelling fish passage options), Stratton Island (Proposed shorebird habitat enhancement,) Meduxnekeag River (investigating fish passage& habitat improvement); Pleasant River (culvert replacement and marsh restoration); New Meadows River (improving water quality and enhancing inter-tidal and salt marsh) and Royal River marsh remediation project and fish passage options at the dam and falls on the lower river.
SUMMARIES & AGENDAS & AUDIO OF EARLIER MAINE DREDGE MEETINGS
2018 10/1/2018)_Maine Dredge Team
2016 October 11, 2016 meeting summary March 7, 2016 (meeting audio)
2000 NYT 8/6/2000 Lobstermen Protest Dumping of Dredge By Paul Molyneaux
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