Taking Back the Kennebec River
Myself (Douglas Watts) and the organization Friends of Merrymeeting Bay have since fall 2005 been engaged in a legal effort before the Maine Board of Environmental Protection to have immediate, safe and effective fish passage installed at the four hydro-electric dams on the Kennebec River between Waterville and Skowhegan.
In spite of 16 months of disputatious legal wrangling with the dam owners, who have tried to defeat our effort, the Maine BEP has scheduled a formal public hearing on our request for March 15 and 16, 2007 to which the public is invited to speak.
The first step in this process, called an “adjudicatory public hearing”, is the submission of “pre-filed testimony” in which myself and Friends of Merrymeeting Bay formally present the factual evidence which we believe supports our request.
A full PDF copy of my Jan. 17, 2007 pre-filed testimony to the Maine Board of Environmental Protection can be downloaded at here.
