Webber Pond Fish Passage Project - Kennebec County

Webber Pond Dam, located at the outlet of Webber Pond in the Webber Pond Watershed, was built in the mid 1980s and is owned and operated by the Webber Pond Lake Association.  The concrete dam has wooden boards that are installed and removed to maintain water levels.  Each fall the pond is partially drawn down to facilitate flushing of nutrients out of the lake to reduce the severity of algal blooms.  Maine Department of Marine Resources has been manually stocking Alewives in Webber Pond.  The lower section of the existing wooden board water control structure no longer functions.  Webber Pond has been a barrier for fish passage since the Edwards Dam was built in 1837.  A fishway and an associated water control structure are proposed to allow upstream and downstream fish passage from the Kennebec River into Webber Pond, Three-Mile Pond, Three-Cornered Pond and Mud Pond. 

Project partners include the Maine Department of Marine Resources, Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Webber Pond Lake Association.

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Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact Available for Comments

NRCS has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Webber Pond Fish Passage Project, Vassalboro, Maine.  Upon an independent review of the EA document, NRCS found that installation of an Alaska Steep Pass

Fishway, American eel passage ladder and water control structure would not result in a significant impact on the quality of the human environment, particularly when focusing on the significant adverse effects that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is intended to help decision makers avoid and mitigate against.  NRCS has prepared a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) in compliance with NEPA, and gives notice that an environmental impact statement is not being prepared. 

Link to the EA and FONSI is below or you can obtain single copies by contacting Amanda Burton, Soil Conservationist, USDA-NRCS, Central Maine Commerce Center, 21 Enterprise Drive, Suite 1, Augusta, ME, 04330, (207) 622-7847 ext. 3.   

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Federal Register Notice - Notice of Availability of Finding of No Significant Impact - Webber Pond Fish Passage, Vassalboro, Maine

The following documents require Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact (.pdf)

Minutes of Webber Pond Fish Passage Public Meeting, May 30, 2007, Vassalboro, Maine (.pdf)

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