New England Inland Rivers Geographic Response Strategies
GRS Projects - Maine
This page summarizes active and completed GRS Development and Testing project activity in Maine and provides a link to access all completed GRS documents. For all completed projects, Meeting Summaries and each project Site Selection Matrix are available. Contact EPA Region 1 or Nuka Research via the contact information provided on the Home Page to obtain project documents.
Active Projects
GRS Development
Moosehead Lake Region
August 2023 - August 2024
A total of 10 GRS will be developed for the Moosehead Lake region in Maine.
An Initial Work Group/Site Selection Meeting and Final Work Group Meeting will be held over the course of this project and all work group members will be invited to attend. Field site surveys will also be conducted and a Tactics Sub-Group meeting will be conducted following the site surveys to develop GRS tactics prior to final GRS production. Meeting and event information is included below. Additional project information will be shared with the work group throughout the life of this project. For project related inquieries, contact EPA Region 1 or Nuka Research via the contact information provided on the Home Page.
Meeting/Event
Initial Work Group/Site Selection
Date/Time
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
10am - 12pm
Work Group/Site Survey Planning
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
9:30am - 11am
Work Group/Site Survey Planning
Monday, April 1, 2024
11am - 12pm
Location
Zoom video conference
Documents
Zoom video conference
Zoom video conference
Meeting Summary
Site Surveys
Tactics Sub-Group
Final Work Group
May 29-30, 2024
TBD
TBD
See Site Survey Schedule
TBD
TBD
Site Survey Schedule
Pending
Pending
Completed Projects
2022 - 2023 Meduxnekeag River GRS Development Project
This project was completed in 2023. The 6 Geographic Response Strategies that were developed are listed below and are available at the Regional Response Team 1 website located here.
MX-ME-01 Houlton West
MX-ME-02 Houlton Riverfront
MX-ME-03 Houlton WWTP
MX-ME-04 Maliseet Tribal Nation South
MX-ME-05 Maliseet Tribal Nation Lowery Rd Bridge
MX-ME-06 Littleton Framingham Rd Bridge
2019 - 2020 Penobscot River GRS Testing Project
This project was completed in 2021. Select tactics included in the below listed GRS were deployed and tested and the GRS was updated based on the results of this testing
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PR-ME-04 Milford/Indian Island
2015 - 2016 Kennebec, Penobscot & Sebasticook River GRS Development Project
This project was completed in 2016. The 10 Geographic Response Plans that were developed are listed below and are available at the Regional Response Team 1 website located here.
Kennebec River
KR-ME-01 Skowhegan
KR-ME-02 Waterville
KR-ME-03 Hallowell
Sebasticook River
SB-ME-01 Pittsfield
SB-ME-02 Benton
Penobscot River
PR-ME-01 Brown Islands
PR-ME-02 Mattanawcook/Chokecherry Islands
PR-ME-03 Howland/Stanford Dam
PR-ME-04 Milford/Indian Island
PR-ME-05 Brewer