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Oct 2, 2020

Maine Dredge Team meets October 6, 2020. Plus: what was decided at 3/3/20 mtg

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

2019  10/4/19 meeting summary

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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