Creative mitigation
On May 9, 1989, in front of a small but enthusiastic group composed of residents of Columbia Falls, Maine, Downeast fisherman and a crew of Bangor Hydro-Electric employees removed some of the wooden sections of the Columbia Falls dam. The dam is located at the mouth of the Pleasant River on the Maine seacoast, only thirty miles from the border between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada. In so doing, they provided unobstructed access by Atlantic salmon to crucial upstream aquatic habitat for the first time since the day was constructed in 1981. At the same time they made possible the efficient operation of a 13 MW hydroelectric facility some 75 miles inland at West Enfield, Maine, on the Penobscot River. This article describes the creative strategies used by Bangor Pacific Hydro Associated to satisfy environmental mitigation requirements at West Enfield, Maine.
- OSTI ID:
- 7229376
- Journal Information:
- Independent Energy; (USA), Vol. 19:8; ISSN 1043-7320
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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