Final Report
June 2006

Can Gravel Mining and Water Supply Wells Coexist?

Executive Summary • Introduction • Problem Statement • Objectives • Methods • Results (field observations, lab results, statistical analysis) • Discussion • Acknowledgements • Appendices

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the Lamoine Conservation Commission and the Boards of Selectmen in Lamoine and Hancock, to the Ellsworth City Planning Office for giving their official as well as personal support, and to the helpful staff in each of these town offices. Thanks to Frenchman Bay Conservancy, Hancock County Planning Office, and Union River Watershed Coalition for their in-kind contributions and encouragement.

Thanks to the many volunteers from the area who stepped forward to help.

Lamoine Volunteers:
Margaret Boshko
Joan Burnett
Joyce Bragdon
Kathleen Cornwell
Cynthia DeFusco
Donaldson Gordon
Raymonde Dumont
Stephen Gabel-Richards Michael Garrett
Bruce Gillett
Ashley Herbert
John Holt
Carol Korty
Beth Boland Levesque
Charlie Major
Mary Major
Georgiana Pulver
Robert Pulver
Kathleen Rybarz
Tom Spruce
Anne Stocking
Fred Stocking
Chris Tadema-Wielandt
Lynda TademaWielandt
Donna Theall
John Wuorinen
Susan Wuorinen.

Hancock Volunteers
Virginia Doris
Diane Eckhardt
Barbara Kent
Ruth Franzius
Rod Franzius
Megan Kief
Eunice Phillips
Grace Schimpf
Peter Soule
Katherine Violette
Barbara Welch
Chris Aaront- College of the Atlantic
Shari Latulippe from Frankli

Ellsworth Volunteers
Diana Cate- Audubon Society
Helen Geils
Elias Kiros Gebreliwot- College of the Atlantic
Pat Wallace
Simon Michaud-College of the Atlantic

Financial support provided by:
The Island Foundation.
State of Maine, Department of Human Services, Wellhead Protection.
Maine Community Foundation.
New England Grassroots Environment Fund.