In 1999 the Edwards Dam came down at the head of tide on the Kennebec. Upstream in the fall of 2008 the Halifax Dam was breached.

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The Halifax dam was on the Sebasticook just above its confluence with the Kennebec. It took 10 years to forge an agreement to take it down. It’s removal meant that fish were free to travel up the Sebasticook under their own steam, not on trucks, for the first time in three hundred years. All that is left of the dam is a cement ruin and the  old brick turbine house with, so I have been told, old lockers with girly pictures inside.

MAJOR RESTORATION EVENTS

  • 1987 – First settlement agreement signed
  • 1998 – Second settlement agreement signed
  • 1987 – 1999 DMR stocks nearly 644,000 adult alewife and 8.4 million American shad fry into spawning and nursery habitat
  • 1999 – Removal of Edwards Dam
  • 2002 – Fish passage completed at Plymouth Pond Dam
  • 2002 – Guilford Dam removed
  • 2003 – Fish passage completed at Sebasticook Lake Dam
  • 2006 – Fishlift operational at Lockwood Project Dam
  • 2006 – Fishlift operational at Benton Falls Project Dam
  • 2006 – Fishlift operational at Burnham Project Dam
  • 2006 – Removal of Madison Electric Works Project Dam
  • 2009 – Removal of Fort Halifax Dam