Project and site characteristics.

The project is located in the village of Benton, Maine on the lower reaches of the Sebasticook River, a tributary of the Kennebec River, and is 5.3 miles from the confluence of the Sebasticook and Kennebec Rivers. The project is the first upstream dam on the Sebasticook from the confluence with the Kennebec River since the removal of the Fort Halifax dam several years ago, which had been located at the confluence of the Sebasticook River and the Kennebec River. The project is also the first dam encountered by sea-run fish migrating from the Atlantic Ocean up the Kennebec and into the Sebasticook River since the removal of the Edwards Dam in Augusta, Maine in 1999.