Water Supply for Maine’s Navy Shipyard Is Draining Months Ahead of Schedule

Water supply for Maine’s Navy shipyard is draining months ahead of schedule

The Kittery Water District's Bell Marsh reservoir is pictured on Wednesday. Photo by Caitlin Andrews.Daniel O’Connor is a Report for America corps member who covers rural government as part of the partnership between The Maine Monitor and the Bangor Daily News, with additional support from BDN and Monitor readers. Water levels in ponds that supply Kittery remain 12 feet below normal heading into winter, and there is no end in sight to conservati…

Drought Pushes Kittery Water Supply to Emergency Levels as Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Heads Into Peak Demand

A summer of drought has left southern Maine’s water supply dangerously depleted heading into winter, raising new concerns about whether reservoirs serving Kittery, part of Eliot and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard can keep pace with demand. The four ponds supplying the Kittery Water District remain about 12 feet below normal, despite recent rainfall from a [...]

Water supply for Maine’s Navy shipyard is draining months ahead of schedule

Water restrictions have been in effect for weeks in Kittery and part of Eliot, and a top official there calls the situation an "emergency."