Chandler River
Cousins River
Crooked River
Fore River
Little River
Muddy River
New Meadows River
Northwest River
Piscataqua River
Pleasant River
Presumpscot River
Royal River
Stroudwater River
Lakes
Crescent Lake
Forest Lake
Florida Lake
Highland Lake
Keewaydin Lake
Little Sebago Lake
Long Lake
Pleasant Lake
Sabbathday Lake
Sebago Lake
Virginia Lake
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About a quarter of a million people (25% of Maine's population) live
in the Casco Bay watershed, an area of 945 square miles. Sebago lake,
the largest freshwater body in southern Maine, provides drinking water
to the Portland area.
rivers
like the Presumpscot are heavily polluted, although things
have slowly been improving. The river above the mill is
Class B and Class A and has a relatively undeveloped shoreline.
Several years ago, facing pressure from the state and the
EPA, SAPPI stopped making pulp at its Westbrook paper mill,
a major source of toxic discharge into the Presumpscot.
stretches
on the upper Presumpscot for canoeing, and the river boasts one
of the most popular year-round catch and release fishing spots
in Southern Maine.
are
working on river renewal through many channels, including dam removal,
water quality monitoring, indigenous fish restoration and efforts
to educate the public about the Presumpscot's potential.
P.O. Box 9300
49 Exeter St.
Portland, ME 04104
207-780-4820
207-780-4317 (fax)
cbep@usm.maine.edu
www.cascobay.usm.maine.edu
2 Fort Road
South Portland, ME 04106
207-799-8574
207-799-7224 (fax)
keeper@cascobay.org
www.cascobay.org
P.O. Box 223
S. Windham, ME 04082
FOPR@presumpscotriver.org
www.presumpscotriver.org
P.O. Box 90
Yarmouth, ME 04096
www.cascobay.com/royal/about.htm
P.O. Box 1416
Westbrook, ME 04092
www.prw-maine.org
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