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When Europeans settled the watershed in the 18th century they brought a different sensibility to life on the river
Over the next three centuries Mills and Dams were built, cutting off migrating fish from their spawning grounds
Dams got bigger and manufacturing got dirtier. The people said the river was dead.
By 1980 the last textile mills were closing, the paper industry was changing, and people began to think about making the river healthy
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.
for the first time in 300 years hundreds of thousands of mooneyed fish could enter into the lower Sebasticook on their own.
Everything Eats Alewives 