Maine’s dam safety program – like dozens of others across the country – remains understaffed and underfunded, even in the face of a changing climate and more intense storms. Although the ...

After decades of understaffing, underfunding and dire warnings about the condition of Maine’s dam safety agency, state lawmakers are now considering expansive legislation that would revamp the ...

In his 1937 book, “Kennebec: Cradle of Americans,” the poet Robert Tristram Coffin called Maine’s sprawling river ... on rivers with just a single dam often perform poorly.

Maine’s Dam Agency Does What It Can to Keep the Aging Infrastructure Safe Nearly a decade after a company abandoned the paper mill that once shaped Bucksport’s economy, its successor is in the ...