Stream Restoration
Over a span of many years the Conservation Commission has collaborated with the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR), US Fish and Wildlife Service, Maine Department of Transportation and others to reintroduce an alewife run to the "Town Marsh". The fish run was disrupted many years ago in part due to the installation of a non-fish friendly culvert under Route 131. The last run was seen sometime during the 1970s. Between 2009 and 2014 DMR has annually released roughly 1,500 spawn ready alewives into the marsh.
A new fish friendly culvert was installed in the fall of 2015. The Conservation Commission is collaborating with the St. George School science classes in an ongoing project to study the marsh and monitor the return of the alewives. Listed below are links to key documents for the alewife restoration project: