Casco Bay News

Washington. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced more than $900,000 in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) funding to conserve the Casco Bay Estuary. Read more here.

The new ocean weather report will provide three-day forecasts of water movement in the Harbor and allow us to ask questions about the effect of storms or intense rainfall on the Port. Learn more about the project and how to participate here.

CBEP’s Habitat Protection Fund Fall 2022 Request for Proposals is now available here.

CBEP’s GPCOG 2021 and 2022 Resilience Fellows Madeline Tripp and Josee Stetich produced a storymap about this groundbreaking project to test Living Shorelines methods on the Maine coast. Here is the storymap.

The map can be explored in the State of Casco Bay section. Indicators shown in this map are: Indicator A – Population and Land Use Indicator C – Combined Sewer Overflows Indicator D – Inland Water Quality Indicator G – Bay Water Quality  Indicator I – Aquatic Connectivity Indicator J – Eelgrass Indicator L –

The Resources dropdown of the website contains Data and Open Science including GitHub data repositories for the State of Casco Bay Report 6th edition; sediment studies; National Coastal Condition Assessment data, and more.

A new StoryMap, “Resilience in the Eastern Bay, Spotlighting projects and partnerships from the last 5 years” is available in the Eastern Bay section of our website.

Five grants were awarded which help to protect 1,945 acres of important habitat, including projects in the Sebago and Presumpscot watersheds.

CBEP is looking for a professional to create a series of photographic images of scenes and projects important to CBEP and its partners, including aerial (drone) photo and video imagery. Please check out the Request for Proposals here.