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	Vol. 13, No. 3	Provided free of charge to our monitors and affiliates	Winter 2009

Summaries of Maine DEP’s polluted stormwater control grant projects now accessible on PEARL and KnowledgeBase.

Resource managers, non-profits, and citizens can easily search for the watershed-based projects from across the state.

Over 100 summarized Maine DEP-administered grant projects that prevented or abated polluted stormwater are now available online through two prime sources of environmental information in Maine: The Gulf of Maine KnowledgeBase and PEARL. Maine DEP administers the Section 319 (Federal Clean Water Act) grants program in the state, providing financial assistance to watershed-based projects taking actions against polluted runoff and soil erosion on or around lakes, streams, and coastal waters. Each two-page project summary describes the watershed’s condition, the conservation methods needed to prevent or stop polluted runoff, and the completed grant project’s actions, notable outcomes, and project partners.

Since 2004, these watershed surveys, management plans and corrective action projects have been summarized in Maine DEP’s Annual Nonpoint Source Management Program Reports. Although these annual reports are online at Maine DEP’s website http://www.maine.gov/dep/blwq/docgrant/319.htm, placing individual project summaries in the KnowledgeBase directory allows ready access to them by name, keyword, year completed, and geographic region. Projects completed since 2004 are now online and searchable by keyword (e.g., water body name) at KnowledgeBase http://references.pearl.maine.edu/kb/search.asp and by watershed at PEARL (http://www.pearl.maine.edu/data.htm).

Try out these search methods to see what’s been done to protect water quality in your favorite Maine water body— be it Spruce Creek in Kittery, or Echo Lake in Presque Isle!

For more information, please contact Ann Speers, AmeriCorps/Maine Conservation Corps Watershed Educator with Maine DEP, Portland: (207) 822-6356.

 

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