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Farming runoff has damaged 4 Aroostook brooks

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Aroostook County, Maine, has more than 300,000 acres of farmland. Soil erosion from storms, rainfall and snowmelt can carry soil into the waterways. A $80,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant paid for a 10-year management plan. The plan aims to halt erosion, improve water quality and restore native fish.

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Farming runoff has damaged 4 Aroostook brooks

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Runoff from farming has harmed Aroostook River tributaries, and a local conservation district has a plan to keep soil in fields and out of the waterways. With an $80,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant, the Central Aroostook Soil and Water Conservation District in Presque Isle surveyed four of the river’s 63 tributaries and devised a 10-year management strategy. The work is vital to understand where the soil erosion c…

1 month ago·Bangor, United States

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Agricultural soil erosion has damaged 4 Aroostook brooks - The County

With an Environmental Protection Agency grant, the Central Aroostook Soil and Water Conservation District in Presque Isle surveyed four of the river’s 63 tributaries and devised a 10-year management strategy.

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