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Plans unveiled for removal of #BarMillsDam on #SacoRiver
#Brookfield is seeking public comment on its latest proposal to remove all parts of the dam that are visible from the Main Street bridge in #BuxtonME and #HollisME
by Madeleine Kaptein, June 30, 2026
"Brookfield White Pine Hydro, the Maine branch of #BrookfieldRenewable Partners, rolled out its latest plan for decommissioning the Bar Mills Project dam in Buxton and Hollis to the public last week. The company intends to conduct a full removal rather than the partial removal it proposed in 2022.
"The dam, which sits in the Saco River on the Hollis-Buxton border, has not operated since 2017, when it was found to have concrete issues that prevented it from generating electricity. The company had to decide whether to repower the station, reconstruct the powerhouse and install a fish passage, or surrender and remove the project. It chose to surrender.
"Brookfield is preparing to file its application in the fall for federal, state and local permits to move forward with the decommissioning work. It is seeking feedback on its new plan for the remainder of the summer. Initial questions and comments were heard at a public meeting at the Hollis Town Hall on June 25.[...]
"[My hero] Rita Bradbury spoke at the meeting about concerns about the type of revegetation that will occur in the area, particularly invasive species like #JapaneseKnotweeds that she has seen year after year growing near Usher Island.
" 'I’d like to see a plan from Brookfield where you take it seriously that we don’t want to have an open area for invasive species,' she said. 'I’d like to see a wetland biologist involved so that the right things would grow at the right places and maybe see if there could be a replanting of #NativeSpecies.'
"She also called on Brookfield to remove every part of the dam that it is not using, including the powerhouse spillway, to protect the natural environment and eliminate safety hazards."
Read more:
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/30/plans-unveiled-for-removal-of-bar-mills-dam-in-saco-river/Archived version:
https://archive.md/3nhvA#SolarPunkSunday #DamRemoval #MaineNews #JapaneseKnotweed #NativePlants #Fish #RiverHerring #Alewife #AmericanEel #BrookTrout
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Plans unveiled for removal of #BarMillsDam on #SacoRiver
#Brookfield is seeking public comment on its latest proposal to remove all parts of the dam that are visible from the Main Street bridge in #BuxtonME and #HollisME
by Madeleine Kaptein, June 30, 2026
"Brookfield White Pine Hydro, the Maine branch of #BrookfieldRenewable Partners, rolled out its latest plan for decommissioning the Bar Mills Project dam in Buxton and Hollis to the public last week. The company intends to conduct a full removal rather than the partial removal it proposed in 2022.
"The dam, which sits in the Saco River on the Hollis-Buxton border, has not operated since 2017, when it was found to have concrete issues that prevented it from generating electricity. The company had to decide whether to repower the station, reconstruct the powerhouse and install a fish passage, or surrender and remove the project. It chose to surrender.
"Brookfield is preparing to file its application in the fall for federal, state and local permits to move forward with the decommissioning work. It is seeking feedback on its new plan for the remainder of the summer. Initial questions and comments were heard at a public meeting at the Hollis Town Hall on June 25.[...]
"[My hero] Rita Bradbury spoke at the meeting about concerns about the type of revegetation that will occur in the area, particularly invasive species like #JapaneseKnotweeds that she has seen year after year growing near Usher Island.
" 'I’d like to see a plan from Brookfield where you take it seriously that we don’t want to have an open area for invasive species,' she said. 'I’d like to see a wetland biologist involved so that the right things would grow at the right places and maybe see if there could be a replanting of #NativeSpecies.'
"She also called on Brookfield to remove every part of the dam that it is not using, including the powerhouse spillway, to protect the natural environment and eliminate safety hazards."
Read more:
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/30/plans-unveiled-for-removal-of-bar-mills-dam-in-saco-river/Archived version:
https://archive.md/3nhvA#SolarPunkSunday #DamRemoval #MaineNews #JapaneseKnotweed #NativePlants #Fish #RiverHerring #Alewife #AmericanEel #BrookTrout
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Plans unveiled for removal of #BarMillsDam on #SacoRiver
#Brookfield is seeking public comment on its latest proposal to remove all parts of the dam that are visible from the Main Street bridge in #BuxtonME and #HollisME
by Madeleine Kaptein, June 30, 2026
"Brookfield White Pine Hydro, the Maine branch of #BrookfieldRenewable Partners, rolled out its latest plan for decommissioning the Bar Mills Project dam in Buxton and Hollis to the public last week. The company intends to conduct a full removal rather than the partial removal it proposed in 2022.
"The dam, which sits in the Saco River on the Hollis-Buxton border, has not operated since 2017, when it was found to have concrete issues that prevented it from generating electricity. The company had to decide whether to repower the station, reconstruct the powerhouse and install a fish passage, or surrender and remove the project. It chose to surrender.
"Brookfield is preparing to file its application in the fall for federal, state and local permits to move forward with the decommissioning work. It is seeking feedback on its new plan for the remainder of the summer. Initial questions and comments were heard at a public meeting at the Hollis Town Hall on June 25.[...]
"[My hero] Rita Bradbury spoke at the meeting about concerns about the type of revegetation that will occur in the area, particularly invasive species like #JapaneseKnotweeds that she has seen year after year growing near Usher Island.
" 'I’d like to see a plan from Brookfield where you take it seriously that we don’t want to have an open area for invasive species,' she said. 'I’d like to see a wetland biologist involved so that the right things would grow at the right places and maybe see if there could be a replanting of #NativeSpecies.'
"She also called on Brookfield to remove every part of the dam that it is not using, including the powerhouse spillway, to protect the natural environment and eliminate safety hazards."
Read more:
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/30/plans-unveiled-for-removal-of-bar-mills-dam-in-saco-river/Archived version:
https://archive.md/3nhvA#SolarPunkSunday #DamRemoval #MaineNews #JapaneseKnotweed #NativePlants #Fish #RiverHerring #Alewife #AmericanEel #BrookTrout
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Plans unveiled for removal of #BarMillsDam on #SacoRiver
#Brookfield is seeking public comment on its latest proposal to remove all parts of the dam that are visible from the Main Street bridge in #BuxtonME and #HollisME
by Madeleine Kaptein, June 30, 2026
"Brookfield White Pine Hydro, the Maine branch of #BrookfieldRenewable Partners, rolled out its latest plan for decommissioning the Bar Mills Project dam in Buxton and Hollis to the public last week. The company intends to conduct a full removal rather than the partial removal it proposed in 2022.
"The dam, which sits in the Saco River on the Hollis-Buxton border, has not operated since 2017, when it was found to have concrete issues that prevented it from generating electricity. The company had to decide whether to repower the station, reconstruct the powerhouse and install a fish passage, or surrender and remove the project. It chose to surrender.
"Brookfield is preparing to file its application in the fall for federal, state and local permits to move forward with the decommissioning work. It is seeking feedback on its new plan for the remainder of the summer. Initial questions and comments were heard at a public meeting at the Hollis Town Hall on June 25.[...]
"[My hero] Rita Bradbury spoke at the meeting about concerns about the type of revegetation that will occur in the area, particularly invasive species like #JapaneseKnotweeds that she has seen year after year growing near Usher Island.
" 'I’d like to see a plan from Brookfield where you take it seriously that we don’t want to have an open area for invasive species,' she said. 'I’d like to see a wetland biologist involved so that the right things would grow at the right places and maybe see if there could be a replanting of #NativeSpecies.'
"She also called on Brookfield to remove every part of the dam that it is not using, including the powerhouse spillway, to protect the natural environment and eliminate safety hazards."
Read more:
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/30/plans-unveiled-for-removal-of-bar-mills-dam-in-saco-river/Archived version:
https://archive.md/3nhvA#SolarPunkSunday #DamRemoval #MaineNews #JapaneseKnotweed #NativePlants #Fish #RiverHerring #Alewife #AmericanEel #BrookTrout
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Plans unveiled for removal of #BarMillsDam on #SacoRiver
#Brookfield is seeking public comment on its latest proposal to remove all parts of the dam that are visible from the Main Street bridge in #BuxtonME and #HollisME
by Madeleine Kaptein, June 30, 2026
"Brookfield White Pine Hydro, the Maine branch of #BrookfieldRenewable Partners, rolled out its latest plan for decommissioning the Bar Mills Project dam in Buxton and Hollis to the public last week. The company intends to conduct a full removal rather than the partial removal it proposed in 2022.
"The dam, which sits in the Saco River on the Hollis-Buxton border, has not operated since 2017, when it was found to have concrete issues that prevented it from generating electricity. The company had to decide whether to repower the station, reconstruct the powerhouse and install a fish passage, or surrender and remove the project. It chose to surrender.
"Brookfield is preparing to file its application in the fall for federal, state and local permits to move forward with the decommissioning work. It is seeking feedback on its new plan for the remainder of the summer. Initial questions and comments were heard at a public meeting at the Hollis Town Hall on June 25.[...]
"[My hero] Rita Bradbury spoke at the meeting about concerns about the type of revegetation that will occur in the area, particularly invasive species like #JapaneseKnotweeds that she has seen year after year growing near Usher Island.
" 'I’d like to see a plan from Brookfield where you take it seriously that we don’t want to have an open area for invasive species,' she said. 'I’d like to see a wetland biologist involved so that the right things would grow at the right places and maybe see if there could be a replanting of #NativeSpecies.'
"She also called on Brookfield to remove every part of the dam that it is not using, including the powerhouse spillway, to protect the natural environment and eliminate safety hazards."
Read more:
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/30/plans-unveiled-for-removal-of-bar-mills-dam-in-saco-river/Archived version:
https://archive.md/3nhvA#SolarPunkSunday #DamRemoval #MaineNews #JapaneseKnotweed #NativePlants #Fish #RiverHerring #Alewife #AmericanEel #BrookTrout
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#BiodiversitySensitive #UrbanDesign
Biodiversity focused design protocols in urban planning and development
by Peter Miles, Mar 30, 2022
"The cooling benefits of the greening of urban areas probably need little introduction and are widely known to help improve human physical and psychological health.
"Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design (BSUD), is a protocol with the aim of transforming urban areas to have increased habitat and food resources for native species and ecological communities.
"Biodiversity, or loss of biodiversity, has become an often-used descriptive term.
"A shortening of biological diversity, it refers to the sum of genetic diversity in an area. With one measure being the species diversity, ie, the number of different species.
"Speciation is the process of creating new species, and this leads to an increase in biodiversity.
"Urban biodiversity generally refers to the remnant of plant and animal species left after the impact of developing a built environment, eg buildings, and roads.
"By attempting to understand the changes caused by urbanization, and what was previously living in an area, from remnants, we can try and predict revegetation species and species density, and animal requirements to attract birds and animals from surrounding remnant habitats.
"BSUD is a new approach to on-site biodiversity conservation and restoration in urban areas (Garrard et al., 2018), to encourage an increase in biodiversity, to be larger in area, including in much of the urban matrix, and together with help from engaged residents leading to an overall biodiversity increase."
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"Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design is a useful tool in establishing more biodiversity in urban areas with 5 main principles:
- Maintain and introduce habitat by revegetation with local species.
- Enable spread of plants and animals, eg by allowing bare soil for burrowing insects and seed germination, control of weeds, and removal of fences.
- Minimize threats and human disturbances, eg herbicide drift, foot traffic, off-leash dogs.
- Allow natural ecological processes, maybe as simple as letting dead logs remain, through to periodic burning.
- Provide for an increase in positive human and natural interaction, eg bird hides, but also no access islands, and no dog areas (Kirk et al., 2021)."
Read more (registration required):
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/biodiversity-sensitive-urban-design-77089ed97d45Archived version:
https://archive.ph/5allx#Rewilding #Australia #SolarPunkSunday #Revegetation #BSUD #NativeSpecies #Restoration #BiodiversitySensitiveUrbanDesign #UrbanBiodiversity
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#BiodiversitySensitive #UrbanDesign
Biodiversity focused design protocols in urban planning and development
by Peter Miles, Mar 30, 2022
"The cooling benefits of the greening of urban areas probably need little introduction and are widely known to help improve human physical and psychological health.
"Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design (BSUD), is a protocol with the aim of transforming urban areas to have increased habitat and food resources for native species and ecological communities.
"Biodiversity, or loss of biodiversity, has become an often-used descriptive term.
"A shortening of biological diversity, it refers to the sum of genetic diversity in an area. With one measure being the species diversity, ie, the number of different species.
"Speciation is the process of creating new species, and this leads to an increase in biodiversity.
"Urban biodiversity generally refers to the remnant of plant and animal species left after the impact of developing a built environment, eg buildings, and roads.
"By attempting to understand the changes caused by urbanization, and what was previously living in an area, from remnants, we can try and predict revegetation species and species density, and animal requirements to attract birds and animals from surrounding remnant habitats.
"BSUD is a new approach to on-site biodiversity conservation and restoration in urban areas (Garrard et al., 2018), to encourage an increase in biodiversity, to be larger in area, including in much of the urban matrix, and together with help from engaged residents leading to an overall biodiversity increase."
[...]
"Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design is a useful tool in establishing more biodiversity in urban areas with 5 main principles:
- Maintain and introduce habitat by revegetation with local species.
- Enable spread of plants and animals, eg by allowing bare soil for burrowing insects and seed germination, control of weeds, and removal of fences.
- Minimize threats and human disturbances, eg herbicide drift, foot traffic, off-leash dogs.
- Allow natural ecological processes, maybe as simple as letting dead logs remain, through to periodic burning.
- Provide for an increase in positive human and natural interaction, eg bird hides, but also no access islands, and no dog areas (Kirk et al., 2021)."
Read more (registration required):
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/biodiversity-sensitive-urban-design-77089ed97d45Archived version:
https://archive.ph/5allx#Rewilding #Australia #SolarPunkSunday #Revegetation #BSUD #NativeSpecies #Restoration #BiodiversitySensitiveUrbanDesign #UrbanBiodiversity
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#BiodiversitySensitive #UrbanDesign
Biodiversity focused design protocols in urban planning and development
by Peter Miles, Mar 30, 2022
"The cooling benefits of the greening of urban areas probably need little introduction and are widely known to help improve human physical and psychological health.
"Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design (BSUD), is a protocol with the aim of transforming urban areas to have increased habitat and food resources for native species and ecological communities.
"Biodiversity, or loss of biodiversity, has become an often-used descriptive term.
"A shortening of biological diversity, it refers to the sum of genetic diversity in an area. With one measure being the species diversity, ie, the number of different species.
"Speciation is the process of creating new species, and this leads to an increase in biodiversity.
"Urban biodiversity generally refers to the remnant of plant and animal species left after the impact of developing a built environment, eg buildings, and roads.
"By attempting to understand the changes caused by urbanization, and what was previously living in an area, from remnants, we can try and predict revegetation species and species density, and animal requirements to attract birds and animals from surrounding remnant habitats.
"BSUD is a new approach to on-site biodiversity conservation and restoration in urban areas (Garrard et al., 2018), to encourage an increase in biodiversity, to be larger in area, including in much of the urban matrix, and together with help from engaged residents leading to an overall biodiversity increase."
[...]
"Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design is a useful tool in establishing more biodiversity in urban areas with 5 main principles:
- Maintain and introduce habitat by revegetation with local species.
- Enable spread of plants and animals, eg by allowing bare soil for burrowing insects and seed germination, control of weeds, and removal of fences.
- Minimize threats and human disturbances, eg herbicide drift, foot traffic, off-leash dogs.
- Allow natural ecological processes, maybe as simple as letting dead logs remain, through to periodic burning.
- Provide for an increase in positive human and natural interaction, eg bird hides, but also no access islands, and no dog areas (Kirk et al., 2021)."
Read more (registration required):
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/biodiversity-sensitive-urban-design-77089ed97d45Archived version:
https://archive.ph/5allx#Rewilding #Australia #SolarPunkSunday #Revegetation #BSUD #NativeSpecies #Restoration #BiodiversitySensitiveUrbanDesign #UrbanBiodiversity
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#BiodiversitySensitive #UrbanDesign
Biodiversity focused design protocols in urban planning and development
by Peter Miles, Mar 30, 2022
"The cooling benefits of the greening of urban areas probably need little introduction and are widely known to help improve human physical and psychological health.
"Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design (BSUD), is a protocol with the aim of transforming urban areas to have increased habitat and food resources for native species and ecological communities.
"Biodiversity, or loss of biodiversity, has become an often-used descriptive term.
"A shortening of biological diversity, it refers to the sum of genetic diversity in an area. With one measure being the species diversity, ie, the number of different species.
"Speciation is the process of creating new species, and this leads to an increase in biodiversity.
"Urban biodiversity generally refers to the remnant of plant and animal species left after the impact of developing a built environment, eg buildings, and roads.
"By attempting to understand the changes caused by urbanization, and what was previously living in an area, from remnants, we can try and predict revegetation species and species density, and animal requirements to attract birds and animals from surrounding remnant habitats.
"BSUD is a new approach to on-site biodiversity conservation and restoration in urban areas (Garrard et al., 2018), to encourage an increase in biodiversity, to be larger in area, including in much of the urban matrix, and together with help from engaged residents leading to an overall biodiversity increase."
[...]
"Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design is a useful tool in establishing more biodiversity in urban areas with 5 main principles:
- Maintain and introduce habitat by revegetation with local species.
- Enable spread of plants and animals, eg by allowing bare soil for burrowing insects and seed germination, control of weeds, and removal of fences.
- Minimize threats and human disturbances, eg herbicide drift, foot traffic, off-leash dogs.
- Allow natural ecological processes, maybe as simple as letting dead logs remain, through to periodic burning.
- Provide for an increase in positive human and natural interaction, eg bird hides, but also no access islands, and no dog areas (Kirk et al., 2021)."
Read more (registration required):
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/biodiversity-sensitive-urban-design-77089ed97d45Archived version:
https://archive.ph/5allx#Rewilding #Australia #SolarPunkSunday #Revegetation #BSUD #NativeSpecies #Restoration #BiodiversitySensitiveUrbanDesign #UrbanBiodiversity
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#BiodiversitySensitive #UrbanDesign
Biodiversity focused design protocols in urban planning and development
by Peter Miles, Mar 30, 2022
"The cooling benefits of the greening of urban areas probably need little introduction and are widely known to help improve human physical and psychological health.
"Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design (BSUD), is a protocol with the aim of transforming urban areas to have increased habitat and food resources for native species and ecological communities.
"Biodiversity, or loss of biodiversity, has become an often-used descriptive term.
"A shortening of biological diversity, it refers to the sum of genetic diversity in an area. With one measure being the species diversity, ie, the number of different species.
"Speciation is the process of creating new species, and this leads to an increase in biodiversity.
"Urban biodiversity generally refers to the remnant of plant and animal species left after the impact of developing a built environment, eg buildings, and roads.
"By attempting to understand the changes caused by urbanization, and what was previously living in an area, from remnants, we can try and predict revegetation species and species density, and animal requirements to attract birds and animals from surrounding remnant habitats.
"BSUD is a new approach to on-site biodiversity conservation and restoration in urban areas (Garrard et al., 2018), to encourage an increase in biodiversity, to be larger in area, including in much of the urban matrix, and together with help from engaged residents leading to an overall biodiversity increase."
[...]
"Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design is a useful tool in establishing more biodiversity in urban areas with 5 main principles:
- Maintain and introduce habitat by revegetation with local species.
- Enable spread of plants and animals, eg by allowing bare soil for burrowing insects and seed germination, control of weeds, and removal of fences.
- Minimize threats and human disturbances, eg herbicide drift, foot traffic, off-leash dogs.
- Allow natural ecological processes, maybe as simple as letting dead logs remain, through to periodic burning.
- Provide for an increase in positive human and natural interaction, eg bird hides, but also no access islands, and no dog areas (Kirk et al., 2021)."
Read more (registration required):
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/biodiversity-sensitive-urban-design-77089ed97d45Archived version:
https://archive.ph/5allx#Rewilding #Australia #SolarPunkSunday #Revegetation #BSUD #NativeSpecies #Restoration #BiodiversitySensitiveUrbanDesign #UrbanBiodiversity