Materials

A Guide to Forming Road Associations. This manual is intended as a resource for private road residents who would like to improve planning for and implementation of successful road maintenance programs.

Best Management Practices for Marinas & Boatyards. This manual is intended to help people who work in marinas and boatyards to reduce water pollution resulting from their activities.

Buffer Handbook Plant List Plant hardiness zones in Maine

Buffer Handbook (on-line version). This is the on-line version of a hardcopy publication. It does not contain as many graphics as the hardcopy, and there are some other minor differences.

Buffer Publication Resource List. This document lists publications available in Maine regarding lake buffers, including a description of each publication, a small color photo of each publication cover, contact information, and links to electronic versions if available.

Camps. Information of interest to camp owners.

Camp Road Maintenance Manual -- A Guide for Landowners. By Kennebec County Soil and Water Conservation District. Available in hardcopy and on the web: cover and text.(pdf files).

Conservation Practices for Homeowners. Series of 20 fact sheets from DEP and the Portland Water District profiling common conservation practices that homeowners can use to protect water quality. The fact sheets include detailed instructions, diagrams and color photos about installation and maintenance. (off-site) (pdf files)

Erosion and Sedimentation Control Law (issue profile).

Impact of Agriculture on Nonpoint Source Pollution. Report to the Legislature (2001). This report describes the status of nonpoint source pollution associated with agriculture and the activities that have been undertaken since 1998 to address this issue. It focuses on three aspects of nonpoint source pollution identified by the Legislature as being of particular concern. These are nutrients, livestock in water and erosion.

LID Guidance Manual for Maine Communities - Approaches for Implementation of Low Impact Development at the local level. September 21, 2007. The purpose of this guidance manual is to help municipalities implement Low Impact Development (LID) practices on small, locally permitted development projects. This manual provides a recommended set of low impact development (LID) standards and guidance on implementing LID practices to comply with those standards.

Long Creek Watershed Management Activities. This webpage provides a central clearinghouse for updates about important new developments in the management of the watershed and also maintains an archive of information from past studies and management efforts.

Nonpoint Source Pollution -- Existing Sources. Report to the Legislature (1998). On October 3, 1997, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) hosted the Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Forum at the State YMCA Camp in Winthrop. The Forum was held in response to a
Resolve (1997 Resolve, Ch. 67) passed by the first session of the 118th Legislature, which requires that the Department report back to the Legislature by January 15, 1998 on “proposed measures that would reduce the contribution of nonpoint source pollution to Maine lakes, streams and coastal waters from existing sources.”

Nonpoint Source Pollution (issue profile)

Nonpoint Source Priority Watersheds List. Waters within designated NPS Priority Watersheds have significant value from a regional or statewide perspective and have water quality that is either impaired, or threatened to some degree due to nonpoint source water pollution. This list will be used to help identify watersheds where state and federal agency resources for NPS water pollution prevention or restoration should be targeted.

Nonpoint Source Priority Watersheds Program (issue profile)

Non-Point Source Times (a newsletter)

Septic System Inspection: Protect your investment by minimizing the risk of costly system replacement or repair (pamphlet)

Think Blue (off-site website). Site created to inform the public about stormwater pollution issues.

Trafton Lake Watershed Survey Report. The town of Limestone secured Clean Water Act section 319 funds to hire a consultant to survey the watershed for non-point source pollution.

To obtain a copy of one of the following publications, call your nearest DEP office or email.

Watershed: An Action Guide to Improving Maine Waters (8" x 11" booklet)
Environmental Management -- A Guide for Town Officials (8" x 11" booklet)
A Citizen's Guide to Coastal Watershed Surveys, 78 pages
A Citizen's Guide to Lake Watershed Surveys, revised 4/97, 91 pages

Other

BMP Guidelines for Roads in Atlantic Salmon Watersheds (off-site). Produced by Project Share.

Gardening to Conserve Maine's Natural Landscape: Plants to Use and Plants to Avoid from University of Maine Cooperative Extension.

Invasive plant fact sheets from the Maine Natural Areas Program.

Video. To help encourage the use of vegetated buffers, the Division of Watershed Management has produced a new video called "Vegetated Buffers; Protecting Property Values and Water Quality". This 15 minute video, narrated by Cliff Michaelsen, discusses phosphorus pollution to our lakes and how vegetated buffers between the shoreline and dwelling help to protect water quality. The video shows actual Maine shorefront properties before a vegetated buffer is in place and after a buffer is installed. The 'after' view is computer generated to help the viewer visualize the enhanced shoreline. You can borrow a copy from the Nonpoint Source Training and Resource Center. Contact: Bill Laflamme phone: 207-287-7726.