KELT contributes to Maine DMR newsletter on Water Quality
Becky Kolak, KELT’s Environmental Educator, contributed to the Maine Department of Marine Resources new Shellfish Program eNewsletter.
She has helped to resurrect the Kennebec Estuary Partnership and held a meeting last month to help prioritize which flats to reopen.
| The Kennebec Estuary Partnership |
| Shellfish areas in the Kennebec have been plagued by numerous sources of pollution that have caused frequent restrictions and closures across the area’s shellfish flats. Fed up with not being able to take advantage of their town’s resources, shellfish harvesters and local, regional, and state agencies in the area took the initiative to set up a partnership and face pollution problems as a united front. The group they formed, the Kennebec Estuary Partnership, is now in its third year. After collaborating to support two AmeriCorps volunteers who will spend this year working to help the Partnership reach its goals, they are successfully moving forward and tackling pollution problems so that shellfish flats can be reopened. Learn more about the Kennebec Estuary Partnership and some of their projects here. |
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Rainfall and Pollution:
April showers bring May
flowers… and the possibility of closures for shellfish harvest areas. Rain causes fecal coliform counts to spike in water surrounding shellfish flats across the state. Find out more about why areas are more polluted after rainfall here!
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