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State hearing set for Monday on proposed amendment to Kennebec River plan


State hearing set for Monday on proposed amendment to Kennebec River plan
The public can ask questions about a proposed amendment to the Maine Department of Marine Resources Kennebec River Management Plan that, if approved, could lead to removal of the Lockwood Dam in Waterville and Shawmut Dam in Fairfield.
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Central Maine residents will have the opportunity Monday to ask questions about a proposed amendment to the state’s Kennebec River Management Plan that, if approved, could lead to removal of the Lockwood Dam in Waterville and Shawmut Dam in Fairfield, with a goal of  saving endangered Atlantic salmon and making the river healthier. ....

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Waterville council postpones voting on proposed change in Kennebec River management plan


Waterville council postpones voting on proposed change in Kennebec River management plan
The council voted to postpone indefinitely making a decision about an amendment to update the Kennebec River management plan, developed by the Maine Department of Marine Resources.
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Four fishermen cast for stripers June 24, 2020, in the Kennebec River just below the Lockwood Dam in Waterville.
Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel file
WATERVILLE A Canadian company that owns dams on the Kennebec River in Waterville and Winslow was unsuccessful this week in convincing the City Council to oppose a plan to change the state’s current river management plan. ....

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4 dams, the future of Kennebec fish runs and salmon's survival at stake in federal licensing battle


A Fairfield man casts a fly into a pool in the Kennebec River below the Shawmut dam.
David Leaming/Morning Sentinel, file
While Maine and the world have been focused on the pandemic, a fight over the future of Maine’s second largest river system is raging inside the electronic docket of an obscure federal relicensing proceeding.
At stake in the drawn-out proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relating to whether and under what terms to relicense a 106-year-old dam that stretches across the river between Benton and Fairfield are the fate of river-run fish in the Kennebec River watershed and quite possibly that of Atlantic salmon in the United States. ....

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