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The Milford Dam is a dam on the Penobscot River between Old Town and Milford in Penobscot County, Maine. The dam received a new fish lift as a part of an extensive project involving four dams to restore eleven species of sea-run fish to the Penobscot River. The Great Works Dam was removed in 2012 and was just downstream of the Milford Dam. [2 ...
Deconstruction of the dam began on July 22, 2013 [2] as a part of an extensive project involving four dams to restore eleven species of sea-run fish to the Penobscot River. [3] The Veazie Dam was the furthest downstream of the dams on the Penobscot River; now the Milford and Orono Dam dams are furthest downstream, albeit on separate side of ...
The Penobscot River (Abenaki: Pαnawάhpskewtəkʷ) is a 109-mile-long (175 km) [2] river in the U.S. state of Maine. Including the river's West Branch and South Branch increases the Penobscot's length to 264 miles (425 km), [ 2 ] making it the second-longest river system in Maine and the longest entirely in the state.
The Orono Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Stillwater River at its confluence with the Penobscot River in Orono, Penobscot County, Maine.As a part of the Penobscot River restoration and the removal of the Great Works and Veazie dams, the Orono Dam and Stillwater Dam will be upgraded to maintain previous levels of power generation.
This list is incomplete. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. The following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Maine, USA.. Major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
Sunday River: Wight's Pond Dam 3 ft (0.91 m) 2017 Penobscot: Winslow Stream: Bagaduce River: Pond level dam owned by the Town of Penobscot, Maine. The dam was replaced with a fish passage to allow alewife to access the pond for spawning. [2] Smelt Brook Dam 2018 Sullivan
The East Branch Penobscot River is a 75.3-mile-long (121.2 km) [1] tributary of Maine's Penobscot River. ... The dam was built at the outlet of First Lake, and ...
It is located across the Penobscot River from the city of Old Town. The population of Milford was 3,069 at the 2020 census. [2] The town's slogan is the "Best little town by a dam site," [3] referring to the Milford Dam abutting Milford on the Penobscot River, south of the Penobscot Indian Island Reservation.