Water Protection
Marsh & Stream Explorers
Curious about what lives in your local streams and freshwater marshes? Join a collaborative project with Maine Audubon and Maine DEP focused on macroinvertebrates and what they can teach us about water quality! Field trainings are held in the spring or you can watch a recorded webinar. Surveying takes place from May to October!
Cumberland County SWCD has a Marsh & Stream Explorers kit available for loan at our office in Windham. Contact us to inquire about reserving the kit or hit the button below to be taken to our reservation page!
Lake and Stream Watershed Protection
The District has over 30 years experience in working with lake associations, private landowners, road associations, and municipalities to protect and restore our lakes and streams. Protection efforts include training and conducting watershed surveys, working with communities to develop watershed management plans, providing holistic and site-specific technical recommendations, and assisting with proposal writing and implementation of State and Federal grant funding.
Coastal Protection
The District has worked with many coastal communities to prevent, reduce, and restore coastal erosion issues through technical assistance, educational efforts, and grant projects with local, state and federal partners.
Think Blue Maine
Think Blue Maine is a statewide campaign to provide resources and information for residents, businesses, and municipalities alike to reduce stormwater pollution. The program supports the 38 regulated stormwater municipalities and nested entities and their community partners working together to meet Clean Water Act permit requirements and to make Maine a better place to live.
Stormwater | Interlocal Stormwater Working Group
ISWG (pronounced izzy-wig) is a coalition of the District, 14 municipalities, and 2 nested MS4s in the greater Portland and Saco areas (Biddeford, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Falmouth, Freeport, Gorham, Old Orchard Beach, Portland, Saco, Scarborough, South Portland, Southern Maine Community College, University of Southern Maine, Westbrook, Windham, and Yarmouth) that work collaboratively to implement Clean Water Act requirements for stormwater. The District coordinates ISWG and provides regional support and implementation of many of the permit’s six required minimum control measures.
Long Creek Watershed Management District
The Long Creek Restoration Project began in 2007 as a collaborative, community-based initiative with representatives from the four Long Creek watershed municipalities (South Portland, Portland, Westbrook, and Scarborough), local businesses, non-profit organizations, and state agencies working together to solve water quality issues. The Long Creek Watershed Management District implements stormwater infrastructure and stream restoration projects to improve the health of Long Creek.
