Maine Surface Waters Ambient Toxics Monitoring Program

Since  the 1990s the state of Maine has compiled information on the heavy metals, organochlorines and other wastes in our state's surface waters, fresh and salt. 

For some reason DEP has chosen to conceal or downplay its early records 1999 to 2009. Those are presented below in their Internet Archive  "reincarnation"

2021-2022 SWAT Report (PDF)

2019-2020 SWAT Report (PDF)

2017-2018 SWAT Report (PDF)

• Individual biological monitoring reports 2017-2018 (zip file)

2015-2016 SWAT Report (PDF)

• Individual biological monitoring reports 2015-2016 (zip file)

2014 SWAT Report (PDF)

• Individual biological monitoring reports 2014 (.zip file)

2013 SWAT Report (PDF)

• Individual biological monitoring reports 2013 (.zip file)

2012 SWAT Report (PDF)

• Individual biological monitoring reports 2012 (.zip file)

2011 SWAT Report (PDF)

• Individual biological monitoring reports 2011 (.zip file)

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Data Rescue

Surface Water Ambient Toxics   2009-1999    

Links to separate report sections below list 

     *  2009 report

• 2008 Report
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2

      *   2007 Report

 2006 Report

 2005 Report

 2004 Report

 2002-2003

 2001

 2000

 1999

2006 Surface Water Ambient Toxics (SWAT) Monitoring Program Report

• Executive Summary
• Marine

  • Lobster heptopancreas
  • Mussels
    • Mercury (in four files: one, two, three, four)
    • PAHs
    • PCBs (in three files: one, two, three)
  • Mill Creek, Falmouth
    • Pesticides
    • Sediment
      • PAHs
      • PCBs (in two files: one, two)
      • Pesticides (in two files: one, two)
• Lakes
  • Evaluating exposure of Maine’s Bald Eagle population to Mercury: assessing impacts on productivity and spatial exposure patterns
• Rivers & Streams

  • Appendix 3.2.1 (in three files: one, two, three)
  • Appendix 3.2.2
  • Ambient biological monitoring: text and tables; maps; graphs; Data files (2006): 1539; 1540; 1547; 1548; 1549; 1550; 1551; 1552; 1553; 1554; 1555; 1556; 1557; 1562; 1563; 1564; 1565; 1566; 1567; 1568; 1569; 1570; 1571; 1572; 1575; 1576; 1577; 1578; 1579; 1580; 1581; 1582; 1584; 1585; 1586; 1587; 1589; 1590; 1592
• Special Studies

2005 Surface Water Ambient Toxics (SWAT) Monitoring Program Report

• Executive Summary
• Marine

  • Marine Metals PAHs Pesticides in Sediment
    

2004 Surface Water Ambient Toxics (SWAT) Monitoring Program Report

• Executive Summary
• Marine

  • Developing a geographic exposure profile of methylmercury availability in salt marshes of New England
  • Lobster data file 1; lobster data file
• Lakes

  • Evaluating exposure of Maine's Bald Eagle population to Mercury: assessing impacts on productivity and spatial exposure patterns
• Rivers & Streams

  • Ambient biological monitoring. Text and tables: In stream temperature data (2004) (graphs); Maps 1 - 24; Data files (2004) -- 1364; 1365; 1366; 1371; 1372; 1373; 1374; 1375; 1376; 1377; 1378; 1379; 1381; 1382; 1383; 1384; 1385; 1386; 1387; 1388; 1389; 1390; 1391; 1392; 1393; 1396; 1397; 1398; 1399; 1400; 1401; 1402; 1403; 1404; 1408; 1409; 1410; 1415; 1416
  • POCIS project report
• Special Studies

2002-2003 Surface Water Ambient Toxics (SWAT) Monitoring Program Report

2002-2003 Surface Water Ambient Toxics Monitoring Program Final Report (Introduction, Executive Summary, and Table of Contents)

Marine

Lakes

Assessing the impacts of methylmercury on piscivorous wildlife using a wildlife criterion value based on the Common Loon, 1998-2002

Assessing the impacts of methylmercury on piscivorous wildlife using a wildlife criterion value based on the Common Loon, 1998-2003

Developing a mercury exposure profile for mink and river otter in Maine (02)

Developing a mercury exposure profile for mink and river otter in Maine (03)

Rivers & Streams

Ambient Biological Monitoring: Text and Tables; Temperature Graphs (2002 and 2003); Maps
Data files: (2002) 1135, 1136, 1137, 1138, 1139, 1140, 1141, 1142, 1143, 1444, 1145, 1146, 1147, 1149, 1150, 1151, 1152, 1153, 1154, 1157, 1158, 1159, 1160, 1161, 1162, 1164, 1165, 1166, 1167, 1168, 1169, 1173, 1178, 1181, 1182, 1183, 1185, 1186, 1187.
Date files: (2003) 1220, 1221, 1222, 1223, 1224, 1227, 1228, 1229, 1230, 1231, 1232, 1233, 1235, 1238, 1239, 1240, 1245, 1246, 1247, 1250, 1251, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1258, 1259, 1260, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1264, 1265, 1266, 1267, 1268, 1272, 1273, 1274, 1275, 1276, 1277.

2003 Kennebec River Caged Mussel Study

Special Studies

2001 Surface Water Ambient Toxics (SWAT) Monitoring Program Report

• Introduction, Executive Summary, and Contents
• Marine and Estuarine
• Lakes
• Rivers and Streams
• Assessing the impacts of methylmercury on piscivorous wildlife using a wildlife criterion value based on the Common Loon
• Ambient Biological Monitoring

  File 1 (text) File 2 (maps) (Updated File 1 loaded 6/9/03)

• Special Studies  
• Investigation of mercury exposure in Maine's Mink and River Otter
• Appendix

2000 Surface Water Ambient Toxics (SWAT) Monitoring Program Report. This report contains the results of the 2000 SWAT monitoring program.   There are also separate full reports of the 'Loon Effects Study', summarized in the Lakes Module, and a report of the 'Caged Mussel Dioxin Bioassay' and 'Caged Mussel PCB Study', summarized in the Special Studies module.  

• Executive Summary, Introduction, and Contents

• Modules
      Marine and Estuarine
      Lakes
      Rivers and Streams
          Table 3.2.1
          Table 3.2.2
      Special Studies

• Appendix.  Fish Lengths and Weights

• "Assessing the impacts of methylmercury on piscivorous wildlife:  as indicated by the Common Loon, 1998-2000"

• "Kennebec River caged mussel pilot study" 

1999 Surface Water Ambient Toxics (SWAT) Monitoring Program Report. 1999 SWAT Report.  This report contains the results of Maine’s 1999 Surface Water Ambient Toxic (SWAT) monitoring program. Much of the data was previously summarized in a progress report published in June 2000. That report was used by the SWAT Technical Advisory Group and the DEP in review and development of the 2000 SWAT workplan. All of the data have been used as soon as received in DEP’s water quality management activities wherever appropriate.

Important Note 6/11/01: The 1999 SWAT mussels for nickel and copper are being reanalyzed. The correct data will be added when the analysis is completed.

The report is organized into 4 parts, 1 Coastal, 2 Lakes, 3 Rivers and Streams, and 4 Special Studies. Within each part, results are presented in the order of the 1999 workplan.

Questions may be directed to authors of each study or to Barry Mower, DEP, SHS 17, Augusta, Maine 04333, tel: 207-287-7777.

A Decade of Toxic Monitoring Along Maine's Coast.   More information added 6/2000.

Fish tissue contamination in the State of Maine; fish consumption advisories