Length: 164 miles

Drainage area: 3,450 square miles (2,730 in Maine)

Discharge at mouth: 4.19 billion gallons/day

Rivers and streams in the Androscoggin Watershed:

Bear River

Black Brook

Clear Stream

Concord River

Cupsuptic River

Dead Cambridge River

Dead Diamond River

Ellis River

Kennebago River

Little Androscoggin River

Magalloway River

Martin Stream

Nezinscot River

Peabody River

Rangeley River

Rapid River

Sabattus River

Sawyer Brook

Sevenmile Stream

Sunday River

Swift River

Swift Cambridge River

Swift Diamond River

Webb River

Wild River
*Source: Maine Rivers
River section could

get new classification
By Donna M. Perry
Staff Writer

LIVERMORE FALLS – The state is going through a public process to determine what needs to be done and what the costs and effects would be to bring a section of the Androscoggin River up to Class C standards.

The next meeting is at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, at the Pine Street Arboretum in Augusta.

Department of Environmental Protection biologist Barry Mower said there has been a lot of progress in cleaning up the river but it still doesn’t meet state standards.

“It’s not as good as the Kennebec or Penobscot (other Class C rivers),” Mower said. Some sections of those rivers have been upgraded to Class B.

“They weren’t as bad to start with,” Mower said. And they’re not as big and had fewer mills.

There is technology available to bring the Androscoggin River up to Class C standards, he said, but it would cost.

At times the river doesn’t meet the standards, Deb Garrett, a DEP spokesperson said, and the state is working on that.

For instance, it doesn’t meet some criteria for fishing and swimming standards.

But if DEP decides through the public process and state authorities that it would just cost society too much to meet the standards, Mower said, there could be a new classification yet to be determined.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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