Lake Stormwater Compensation Fund
General information
Development projects subject to the Maine Stormwater Management Law located in eligible lake watersheds may satisfy permit requirements for phosphorus reduction by paying a compensation fee into a Lakes Stormwater Phosphorus Compensation Fund for that same eligible lake watershed. Compensation fund monies are used to implement Stormwater Compensation Projects reduce phosphorus export from existing high phosphorus export land uses in the lake watershed.
Requests for funding must be made through one of the following Stormwater Administrators: Androscoggin Valley Soil & Water Conservation District, Cumberland County Soil & Water Conservation District, Cobbossee Watershed District, Kennebec County Soil & Water Conservation District Lakes Environmental Association, Penobscot County Soil & Water Conservation District, York County Soil & Water Conservation District
Funding details
Funding application timeline
Grant eligibility
Types of activities are limited to the following: Listed in order of preference, these activities are acceptable for a compensation project:
I. Permanent Change in Land Use: Projects that result in a “permanent” change in land use from a high phosphorus (P) export land use (i.e. active agriculture, commercial, brownfield, harvesting road or landing, eroding skid trail, eroding ATV trail, eroding boat landing) to a low P export land use (i.e., forest, meadow). This is the best type of activity; the P reduction will be very long lasting.
II. Treatment of Stormwater Runoff: Projects that, at least in part, provide treatment of stormwater runoff from a high phosphorus export land use (i.e. commercial or high use parking, roads, agriculture) with BMPs that attenuate much of the P in the stormwater (buffers, turnouts to buffers, bioretention cells and other underdrained soil filters, infiltration systems), with preference given to BMPs that require the least maintenance. This is the 2nd best type of activity; lasting P reduction will depend on maintenance of the BMPs.
III. Long‐Term Programs: Programs that actively and regularly reduce P export from high P export land use by reducing or preventing potential contamination of runoff water by phosphorus (Examples: a high efficiency street sweeping program in high density residential and commercial areas; manure storage and management using approved methods, livestock management using approved methods, compliance and/or enforcement work associated with permits in the SLZ, or other program efforts that can be demonstrated to have high likelihood of significantly reducing P export). This is the 3rd best type of activity; however lasting P reduction will depend on active management of a program.
Projects may only be sited within the following watersheds: Lake Auburn Allen Pond Brettuns Pond Crystal Pond Pleasant Pond Little Wilson Pond No Name Pond Loon Pond Lower Range Pond Nequasset Pond Thompson Lake Sewall Pond Sabattus Pond Taylor Pond Tripp Pond Worthley Pond Middle Range Pond Upper Range Pond Bonny Eagle Lake Coffee Pond Collins Pond Crescent Lake Crystal Lake (Dry Pond) Duck Pond (Little) Dundee Pond Forest Lake Gorham Pond (North) Highland (Duck) Lake Panther Pond Parker Pond Pettingill Pond Pleasant Pond Raymond Pond Sabbathday Lake Sebago Lake Sebago Lake (Little) (Main, Hunger, & Upper basins) Tarkill Pond Thomas Pond Watchic Pond Annabessacook Lake Carlton Pond Cobbosseecontee Lake Cochnewagon Lake Jimmy Pond Little Cobbosseecontee Lake Maranacook Lake north Maranacook Lake south Pleasant Pond upper Pleasant Pond lower Upper Narrows Pond Wilson Pond Woodbury Pond Great Pond Threemile Pond Webber Pond China Lake East Pond Echo Lake Flying Pond Long Pond North Long Pond South Lovejoy Pond McGrath Pond Messalonskee Lake Parker Pond Pattee Pond Salmon Lake Parker Pond Pattee Pond Salmon Lake Togus Pond North Pond Threecornered Pond Androscoggin Lake Bear Pond Beaver Pond Brandy Pond Crystal Lake Foster Pond Granger Pond Hancock Pond Highland Lake Holt Pond Island Pond Keoka Lake Keyes Pond Long Lake McWain Pond Moose Pond north basin Moose Pond middle basin Moose Pond south basin Mud Pond Papoose Pond Peabody Pond Sand Pond Stearns Pond Trickey Pond Woods Pond Sebasticook Lake Hermon Pond Davis Pond Etna Pond Garland Pond Holbrook Pond Patten Pond Swetts Pond Lake Wassookeag Pushaw Lake Mattanawcook Lake Cold Stream Pond Chemo Pond Brewer Lake Pleasant Lake Adams Pond (Rock Haven) Balch and Stump Ponds Bauneg Beg Lake Bunganut Pond Curtis Pond Deer Pond Ell (L) Pond Estes Lake Granny Kent Pond Great East Lake Holland (Sokosis) Pond Horne (Pequawket) Pond Kennebunk Pond Killick Pond Knights Pond Leigh’s Mill Pond Long Pond Loon Pond Mill Pond Milliken Mills Pond Mousam Lake Northeast Pond Number One Pond Old Fishing Pond Ossipee Flowage (Little) Ossipee Lake (Little) Poverty Pond (Big) Province Lake Roberts & Wadley Ponds Shaker Pond Square Pond West Pond Wilson Lake