Dam Safety Statistics

There are 1,016 dams on the Departments database of which 824 meet the definition of a dam qualifying them for regulation, apportioned as follows:

• 600 dams by the Maine Dam Safety Program
• 168 jurisdictional dams by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
• 59 on or impacting the Salmon Falls River on the ME-NH border by the NH-DES Dam Bureau
• 2 dams, Woodland and Grand Falls, located on the Canadian border by the International Joint Commission (IJC) on dams.

Current statistics may vary from these published figures slightly at any given time, as a result of recent reevaluations and inspections.

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