LNG proposal for Sears Island 2004 FOAA'd Documents from Governor Baldacci

June 2004 FOAA results  at the link and below. NOTE THESE ARE ARCHIVED FILES 

https://web.archive.org/web/20070908055606/http://www.penbay.org:80/searsfoa03.html

FOA'd documents from a June 2004 Freedom of Access Law request to Governor Baldacci's office, requesting all LNG related files from April through June 2004.

List of Governor's staff & agency heads mentioned. Other FOA'd documents

FOA'd documents from a June 2004 Freedom of Access Law request to Governor Baldacci's office, requesting all LNG related files from April through June 2004.
List of Governor's staff & agency heads mentioned. Other FOA'd documents

Governor Baldacci & LNG: Security & Public Safety
LNG Security Review of Boston Harbor & Everett LNG facility (& Harpswell) Undated)
Dept of Public Safety's memo to Adams & Stearns re DPS' LNG 'Perspective' report 10/29/03
Report by DPS: "LNG: A Perspective on Security & Safety" unsigned, undated
Maine Emergency Management Agency to Baldacci advisor -overview of LNG security issues undated

Governor Baldacci and "political" side of LNG issues in Maine.
David Bright, friend of Baldacci's, offers Sears Island & LNG political advice 5/20/04 2/20/04

Governor Baldacci and Quoddy LNG plan.
Notes from LNG meeting at Pleasant Point undated
Quoddy Bay LLC's "Fact Sheet" distributed at a public meeting with Passamaquaddy tribe.
Umphrey to Cashman on Portland investors for Washington County LNG 5/19/04
Baldacci's draft Quoddy LLC statement 6/8/04

Governor Baldacci and Federal Govt "pre-emption" on LNG
MDEP Commissioner gets report on state's existing LNG laws & regulations 11/26/03
Nagusky to DEP and Gov's chief counsel on FERC powers 4/22/04
Nagusky sends Littel & Stearns copies of FERC Preemption Order #CP04-58 4/22/04
Describes federal document on who controls LNG decisions 4/28/04
Citizens Energy writes to Baldacci about FERC & Maine 5/14/04
CLF writes to FERC & Governor about LNG in New England 5/5/04
CLF writes to New England Governors, Congress about LNG 5/5/04

Governor Baldacci and towns and state legislators on LNG
Governor's form letter on LNG ("sent to 92 constituents") 5/25/04
Stockton Springs Selects write to Waldo County with LNG concerns 3/12/04
3 Legislators write Baldacci with LNG concerns. 3/29/04
Baldacci writes to Searsport 4/4/04
Waldo County Commissioners write JEB with concerns 4/13/04
Searsport writes to Baldacci; asks for official "No LNG without town support" letter in writing. 4/15/04
Searsport invites Governor to Searsport LNG gathering. 4/22/04
Baldacci writes to Waldo County Commissioners & area legislators about LNG 6/1/04

Governor Baldacci & Sierra Club communications on LNG
Sierra Club writes to Baldacci calls for LNG planning 2/23/04
Baldacci's policy advisor responds to Sierra Club 3/304
MDOT Commissioner Cole writes to Sierra Club 4/6/04
Sierra Club writes again to Baldacci, "puzzled" by non response) 4/28/04
Baldacci policy analyst Stearns sets meeting with Sierra Club, Islesboro Island Trust 5/19/04

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Maine Trawl Surveys 2000 to 2018

Maine /NH Trawl Surveys 2000 - 2018 Source: Maine DMR

"The Maine-New Hampshire Inshore Trawl Survey is a resource assessment survey performed along the coastal waters of Maine and New Hampshire. Bi-annual surveys, spring and fall, have been conducted since the fall of 2000" DMR website.

Images from two 2000 trawl tows

• Year 1 (2000-01) Report - pdf file, 4.9 MB
• Year 2 (2001-02) Report - pdf file, 10.3 MB
• Year 3 (2002-03) Report - pdf file, 3.0 MB
• Year 4 (2003-04) Report - pdf file, 4.1 MB
• Year 5 (2004-05) Report - pdf file, 8.2 MB
• Year 6 (2005-06) Report - pdf file, 1.1 MB
• Year 7 (2006-07) Report - pdf file, 5.9 MB
• 2007 Annual Report - pdf file, 1.7 MB
• 2008 Annual Report - pdf file, 5.6 MB
• 2009 Annual Report - pdf file, 4.6 MB
• 2010 Annual Report - pdf file, 6.1 MB
• 2011 Annual Report - pdf file, 5.3 MB
• 2012 Annual Report - pdf file, 7.3 MB
• 2013 Annual Report - pdf file, 3.6 MB
• 2014 Annual Report - pdf file, 3.6 MB
• 2015 Annual Report - pdf file, 4.0 MB
• 2018 Annual Report - pdf file, 3.2 MB

Maine Surface Waters Ambient Toxics Monitoring Program SWAT 1999 to 2022

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, brackish and salt. This is the Surface Waters Ambient Toxics Monitoring Program  or SWAT.   Below are the reports from most recent 2021-2022 back to 1999 

Note: SWAT reports 2009-1999 are internet archived. DEP has chosen to remove  its early SWAT records 1999 to 2009. Those are presented below in their entirety  in their Internet Archive  "reincarnation"

While these were presented to the agency  several years ago and received with acclamations of relief  by  Swatfolk , they have not  returned these reports back onto the state's website - even though every  

 2023 - 2024 SWAT Report [not out yet]

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