Picture credit: Timothy Valentine / Creative Commons The Septic System Database provides information for the Towns of Ogunquit, South Berwick, Wells, and York, Maine on theOgunquit River watershed septic system database created by FB Environmental Associates. The overall goal ofthe septic database is to facilitate municipal management of septic systems by ranking systems according to […]
Despite setbacks and delays, the UMaine project is likely to be the first floating commercial-scale wind farm in the U.S. Picture credit: Tux Turkel, staff writer at the Portland Press Herald, wrote: “UMaine’s bid to be a player in the emerging offshore wind industry has suffered repeated setbacks. Most notably, it was hobbled during the […]
Picture credit: “caveman Chuck” Coker / Creative Commons Julia Bayly wrote on January 27. 2020 in the Bangor Daily News: “Maine currently uses more fossil-fuel produced energy than any of the other New England States. The solution to reducing, and even eliminating, that dependency could lay in state’s potential to produce much of the energy […]
Picture credit: cluczkow at Creative Commons Maine Healthy Beaches is the organization of the State of Maine that the Town of Ogunquit partners with to monitor the water quality of our beaches. The Maine Healthy Beaches Program was established to ensure that Maine’s salt-water beaches remain safe and clean. The program brings together communities to perform […]
In November 2020 we featured a video produced by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to showcase “Green Techniques” that can be used by individuals and businesses that will make our society more sustainable. Stormwater is rainwater or melted snow that runs off streets, lawns, and other sites. When stormwater is absorbed into the soil, it […]
