love2fish of Windham, ME You can read Scribners Mill response to the IF&W letter by Francis Brautigam. www.scribnersmill.org/IFW.shtm
I think the environmental wackos have gone too far by opposing this beautiful historic restoration. A small dam with an EXCELLENT fishway to run a WOODEN waterwheel on a QUIET river is a GOOD idea and won't hurt the salmon ONE BIT. And by the way, I eat Spotted Owls for dinner.report abuse

Roger Wheeler of Fryeburg, ME Silent K brings up a point about the Sebago Lake fishery. Why is Sebago Lake fishery so poor in relation to its history? DEP allowed a major change in lake level regulation about 20 years ago. Since 1987 what do they do different. They ended interannual variability which was the result of changes in year to year precipitation while maintaining uniform outflow. Now, they maintain the same water level for the same date every year. They eliminated the lower 4 feet of the historic range in the summer through November. They will drop the level hard after freezing temperatures. They have changed the seasonal timing of high and lows. They keep the lake unnaturally high during the growing season.Dead vegetation never has the chance to safely dessicate and oxidize. Sediments never consolidate. The fish nursery and feed areas of wetlands and littoral area are sick now. The Songo River and its wetland look black from the air due to all the rotting vegetation in it. A big change from the sandy bottom river of 30 years ago.
This would all suggest a reason for the mediocre fishery. The same present regulation not only destroyed a world class fishery, but it eroded away the world's finest inland lake beaches and it is harming water quality of one of the cleanest and most resilient lakes in the world. The only State employee to speak against what is happening
was demoted and presently been kept demoted. Apparently this is all acceptable in Maine.report abuse

Jon Bon Jovi of Gorham, ME Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I vote for the fish...........the slippery devils at the center of the regime (Augusta) are slippery like salmon............My friends...........My friends..............My friends................I have cancer for the 500th time......................and I'm only 730 years old!report abuse

Pine Tree of West Gardiner, ME This is not a hydro electric dam project and the Crooked River is the major spawning tributary for landlocked salmon for Sebago Lake.

The negative comments on this story to date are from ignorance and not from an understanding of the issues.

Hopefully the permit application to build the proposed dam will be denied by the DEP and the Crooked River in this section will be upgraded to AA status during 2009.report abuse