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Bangor staff update committee on compensation-fee plans for urban impaired streams
Summary
City stormwater manager outlined pending updates to compensation-fee utilization plans for multiple impaired urban streams and said the Shawbrook plan was submitted to and approved by Maine DEP.
Richard May, stormwater manager in the City of Bangor engineering department, updated the Infrastructure Committee Monday on the city’s use of developer ‘‘compensation fee’’ funds to mitigate impacts to urban-impaired stream watersheds.
May told committee members that the city has had three separate compensation-fee funds for urban impaired streams that are collected from developers who choose to pay into the fund instead of completing off-site mitigation. He said the compensation plans act as a project list for each watershed and noted the plans have not been comprehensively updated since February 2006 in some watersheds.
May said the three watersheds with compensation-fee plans are Benjagerwok Stream (near the Bangor Mall area), Birch Stream (near the airport), and Arctic Brook (a corridor through the Broadway area to Kunduzkegg Stream). He added that the city recently completed a watershed management plan for a stream he referred to as Pinjaduwak; that plan will provide project lists the compensation-fee program can fund.
May told the committee that the Shawbrook watershed, on the west side of the airport and partly within the towns of Hermon and Hampden, now has an active compensation-fee utilization plan. He said the city drafted that plan, checked with the neighboring towns, and submitted it for review; he reported receiving approval from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection last week.
May said Arctic Brook’s compensation-fee plan was updated in February 2016 and that the city has completed several improvement projects in that watershed, though additional projects could be added. He said Birch Stream’s watershed plan is slated for an update during the coming year.
The committee did not take formal action on the report. The committee chair invited members to offer input; no substantive policy direction or votes were recorded during the update.
