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Completed in 2000
For more information contact:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service
Gulf of Maine Program
4R Fundy Rd.
Falmouth, ME 04105
| Project Description: |
In 1998, the Edwards
Dam on the Kennebec River was removed, permitting anadromous fish
to migrate an additional 17 miles upstream to the confluence of
the Sebasticook River. Fish migrations in the Sebasticook River
is blocked by three hydro power dams and four non-hydro power dams,
including Pleasant Pond Dam. Installing a
fish ladder at the Pleasant Pond Dam is part of a larger initiative
to restore fish passage at these seven sites in the Sebasticook
River Basin. For example, fish passage projects are currently pending for implementation
at the three other non-hydro dams in spring and summer, 2002. |
Pleasant Pond dam before fish passage was provided |
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Fish ladder installed at Pleasant Pond dam
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| Project
Outcome: |
A Denil steeppass
fishway was installed, allowing alewives upstream migration to
spawning habitat. Providing fish passage at Pleasant Pond Dam
was a key step in completing a large-scale restoration effort
in the Sebasticook River Basin. |
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| Benefits: |
Provided
access to spawning habitat for an estimated 26,880 adult alewife
annually. Passage was provided to the 768-acre
Pleasant Pond. Providing passage at all four non-hydro power dams
will trigger restoration of 28 river-miles of habitat for anadromous
fish. This restoration effort will also restore habitat for Atlantic
salmon, blueback herring, striped bass, and American eel. |
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| Partners: |
USFWS
Coastal Program and Maine Anadromous Fish Program, Natural Resources
Conservation Service, Maine Department of Marine Resources, American
Rivers, Town of Stetson |
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