Maine Lakes Transparency, Color & Chemistry: Overall Mean Values
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains overall mean values for Secchi transparency, color and a series of water chemistry parameters for surveyed Maine lakes. Data were collected by Maine DEP (MDEP), the Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program (VLMP) [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine lakes water quality - pH, color, conductivity, alkalinity (by date)
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains pH, color, conductivity and alkalinity data for Maine lakes, by date of collection. Data were collected by ME DEP, Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program and other organizations. Data are provided by ME [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine lakes water quality - chlorophyll (by date)
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains chlorophyll data for Maine lakes sampled by ME DEP, Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program and other organizations. Data were provided by Linda Bacon, ME DEP.

Data are current through the 2018 sampling year.

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Maine lakes water quality - total phosphorus (by date)
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains total phosphorus data for Maine lakes, by date of collection. Data were collected by ME DEP, Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program and other organizations. Data are provided by ME Dept. of Environmental [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine lakes water quality - Secchi transparency (by date)
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains Secchi transparency data for Maine lakes, by date of collection. Data were collected by ME DEP, Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program and other organizations. Data are provided by ME Dept. of Environmental [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine lakes water quality - temperature & dissolved oxygen profiles
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains water temperature and dissolved oxygen data for Maine lakes. These data are current through 2018. Data were collected by ME Dept. of Environmental Protection, the Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program and other [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine Lakes Transparency, Color & Chemistry: Annual Mean Values
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains annual mean values (with maxima and minima) for Secchi transparency, color and a series of water chemistry parameters for surveyed Maine lakes. Data were collected by Maine Department of Environmental Protection [...] [ click to read more ]


An analysis of minnow assemblages in the Upper St. John river watershed
Borowski, Mike//Ewing, Mo

Survey of fish assemblages in lakes and streams of the Upper St. John watershed in Maine.


Aquatic vegetation surveys for selected Maine lakes: data set
Cameron, D.

This data set contains data from a survey of Maine lakes conducted by D. Cameron (Maine Natural Areas Program). The data were compiled into this file by P. Vaux (University of Maine) as part of [...] [ click to read more ]


Lake plant surveys: Maine
Cameron, Don; Keith Williams; Roberta Hill

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This file contains data from surveys of plant assemblages in Maine lakes and ponds. The first two data worksheets contain data from "rapid [...] [ click to read more ]


Lake fish surveys (Maine): 1938-1944
Cooper, G.; J. Fuller

G. Cooper and colleagues conducted detailed lake surveys of Maine lakes in the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to species lists, the fisheries data include relative abundance, food habits and age-growth. Other data generated [...] [ click to read more ]


Profundal chironomid communities in Maine lakes (data set)
Courtemanch, David

Profundal chironomid communities were sampled in late winter. The chironomid data were used to assign a chironomid-based lake type to each of the study lakes, based on Saether's 1979 lake classification scheme, which defines a [...] [ click to read more ]


Relationships between profundal chironomid communities, water quality, and the lake classification system in Maine
Courtemanch, David L

This study used a group 49 lakes with varying trophic state but which are geographically close and morphometrically similar to assess the use of the chironomid fauna as an alternative lake classification technique.

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A fish survey conducted between 16 and 20 August 1999 of the major tributaries of the St. John river, Maine, located between Baker Lake and Ninemile Bridge
Culp, T.R.

Descriptive and comparative studies of Maine lakes
Davis, Ronald B.//Bailey, John H.//Scott, Matthew//Hunt, Gardner//Norton, Stephen A.

Study investigated water chemistry, phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthos and bacteria of Maine lakes, primarily in the southern part of the State.


Fish assemblages in the Upper St. John river drainage of Maine, USA and Quebec, Canada
Halliwell, David B.

Report summarizes lake and stream fish surveys of the Upper St. John conducted for The Nature Conservancy in 1999-2002. The data table accompanying this record is derived from the original survey data as incorporated into [...] [ click to read more ]


Unnamed Brook, Prestile Stream Pollutant Load Reduction
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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Central Aroostook SWCD, working with the landowner and NRCS designed a series of BMPs to capture both sediments and nutrients coming off the cropland in the watershed of the Unnamed tributary. The [...] [ click to read more ]


South Perley Brook Restoration Project: BMP Implementation
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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Perley Brook's water quality is presently threatened with nutrient loading from several agricultural fields and pastures, primarily due to run-off from both livestock and row crop activities. Approximately 52% of the [...] [ click to read more ]


Meduxnekeag (Drews) Lake Restoration Project: Phase I, NPS Watershed Survey
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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In 1998, a Serve Maine AmeriCorps member helped local residents survey the residential sections of the watershed. The survey identified eroding driveways, poor ditching, poorly installed or maintained culverts, and a lack [...] [ click to read more ]


Prestile Stream Watershed Management Plan
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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The 2000 305(b) Report, states that the Prestile Stream from Easton to Mars Hill is classified as Class A, but only attains Class C standards for dissolved oxygen and aquatic life. [...] [ click to read more ]


Portage Lake BMP Demonstration Project
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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Portage Lake is the second lake in the western chain of the Fish River Lakes. This project was designed to augment pollution prevention work already started in the Portage Lake watershed [...] [ click to read more ]


Long Lake Watershed Survey Phase III
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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The purpose of this project was to conduct a watershed survey of the remaining southern part of the watershed that was not surveyed in the previous projects. The Town of St. [...] [ click to read more ]


Meduxnekeag (Drews) Lake Restoration Project
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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In the summer of 1998 the Maine DEP, through an Americorps volunteer, worked with the Drews Lake Property Owners Association (DLPOA) to conduct a volunteer watershed survey of the residential section [...] [ click to read more ]


North Perley Brook Watershed Survey
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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The goal of this project was to conduct a watershed survey of the North Perley Brook watershed. This will allow landowners and agencies to target their resources and implement BMPs to [...] [ click to read more ]


S. Perley Brook Restoration Project: BMP Implementation Phase II
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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Perley Brook is threatened with not meeting Class B water quality standards as a result of agricultural runoff from both livestock and row crop activities. The Phase II Implementation project was [...] [ click to read more ]


Echo Lake Watershed Improvement Project
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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Echo Lake is a shallow (9 feet maximum depth) 90-acre lake located on the east side of Quaggy Joe Mountain on the south end of Presque Isle Township. The purpose of [...] [ click to read more ]


Little Madawaska Lake Conservation Project
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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Kennedy Brook/Mantle Lake Watershed Improvement
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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Kennedy Brook and Mantle Lake by reducing sediment loads from agricultural land. The project focused on the steepest agricultural fields in the watershed.

NRCS engineers surveyed the site, completed an assessment and [...] [ click to read more ]


McLean Brook NPS Watershed Survey
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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(NRCS) and Maine Forest Service (MFS) staff, the St. John Valley SWCD conducted a NPS survey of the tributary and its watershed, using methods adapted from the DEP’s stream survey manual. [...] [ click to read more ]


Perley Brook Watershed Project: Phase III
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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This Phase III project addressed three previously identified sites on three farms in both the South and North Perley Brook watersheds. Two farms are small diversified working farms with a variety [...] [ click to read more ]


McLean Brook Watershed BMP Implementation Project
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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The 319-funded watershed survey completed by the St. John SWCD identified six major NPS sites, one is an ATV crossing and the other five are a combination of agricultural and road [...] [ click to read more ]


Williams Brook & Prestile Stream Citizen Storm Watchers
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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A Storm Watcher survey collected storm event water samples to measure turbidity and Total Suspended Solids (TSS) as part of the Maine Volunteer River Monitoring Program (VRMP) administered by Maine DEP. [...] [ click to read more ]


Upper Prestile Stream Main Stem 1 Watershed Survey
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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The watershed survey was performed using guidelines outlined in Stream Survey Manual Volume I: A Citizen’s Guide to Basic Watershed, Habitat and Geomorphology Surveys in Stream & River Watersheds. Natural resource [...] [ click to read more ]


Kennedy Brook NPS Watershed Survey
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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The purpose of the project was to conduct an NPS survey of the Kennedy Brook watershed, create an implementation plan for future work and carry out educational efforts to keep stakeholders [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine stream biomonitoring: Google Earth map
Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection

The Biological Monitoring Program displays its sampling locations and provides select biological, physical and chemical data to the public via Google Earth. All of our sampling sites are displayed and they all have general location [...] [ click to read more ]


Lake fish of Maine
Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife

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This data set contains lists of fish species in Maine lakes and are derived from MDIFW's lake survey database (2007 update). The database contains a listing of all fish [...] [ click to read more ]


Lake associations & environmental organizations in Maine
Maine Lake Monitoring Program

This file contains a list of lake associations and conservation / environmental organizations that work, in some capacity, with lakes in Maine.  The data include the MIDAS codes and names of lakes present in the [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine Wildlands Lakes Assessment
Maine Land Use Commission

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The Maine Wildlands Lake Assessment was initiated by the Land Use Regulation Commission in order to strengthen the Commission's ability to make informed decisions regarding the protection and [...] [ click to read more ]


The aquatic insects of the St. John river drainage, Aroostook county, Maine
Mingo, Terry M.//Courtemanch, David L.//Gibbs, Elizabeth K.

Maine lakes chemistry: Mitchell Center data
Nelson, Sarah

These chemistry data were collected from Maine lakes that are part of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s ongoing Regionalized Long-term Monitoring Program (RLTM), begun in 1982; Temporally Integrated Monitoring of Ecosystems (TIME) program that began [...] [ click to read more ]


Freshwater mussels of Maine
Swartz, Beth (data provider)

This data set contains the results of the statewide freshwater mussel survey conducted under the direction of MDIFW. Most of the survey was conducted between 1992 and 2009. In addition to survey-collected samples, there are [...] [ click to read more ]


Lake fish of Maine: Google Earth map
Vaux, P. (compiler). Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife (data source)

The map displays surveyed lakes, list of fish species at each lake and fishery management type (as designated by MDIFW).

Data may be viewed in this Google Earth file: Lake_fish.kmz.

Lists of fish species in Maine [...] [ click to read more ]


Caddisflies of Maine: composite data
Vaux, P. (compiler). Multiple data sources

This data set contains a compilation of caddisfly data from the Maine Aquatic Biodiversity Project database (completed in 2005). Data are from multiple sources; sources are provided for each record. Included in this [...] [ click to read more ]


Blackflies of Maine: composite data
Vaux, P. (compiler). Multiple data sources

This table contains a compilation of blackfly (Diptera: Simuliidae) data from the Maine Aquatic Biodiversity Project (MABP) database. Data were extracted from the MABP database in January 2005. Taxon names represent taxonomy current [...] [ click to read more ]


Stoneflies of Maine: composite data
Vaux, P. (compiler). Multiple data sources.

This data set contains stonefly records for Maine, compiled from multiple data sources by the Maine Aquatic Biodiversity Project. Some records are geo-referenced only to the county or state levels, while site coordinates have been [...] [ click to read more ]