Stream-Smart Road
Crossing Resources
Maine Audubon Stream-Smart http://maineaudubon.org/wildlife-habitat/stream-smart/
Maine
Audubon Stream-Smart Workshop Documents: https://sites.google.com/a/maineaudubon.org/stream-smart-road-crossing-workshops/
Maine Stream Habitat Viewer http://mapserver.maine.gov/streamviewer/streamdocHome.html
Assessment & Design
Tools &
Documents Available on the Internet
Maine Department of
Transportation Fish Passage Policy and Design Guide - www.maine.gov/mdot/env/envdocs.htm
Maine Department of
Transportation, Environmental Office Waterway and Wildlife Crossing
Policy and
Design Guide 3rd edition, July 2008 - www.maine.gov/mdot/env/envdocs.htm
Maine Forest Service
Best Management Practices for Forestry: Protecting Maine's Water
Quality - http://www.maine.gov/doc/mfs/pubs/bmp_manual.htm
Maine Road-Stream
Crossing Survey Manual 2008 - www.maine.gov/doc/mfs/fpm/water/docs/stream_crossing_2008/MaineRoad-StreamCrossingSurveyManual2008.pdf
Maine Stream Crossing Inventory - www.maine.gov/doc/mfs/fpm/water/stream_crossing.html
Knox/Lincoln Counties Soil & Water
Conservation http://www.knox-lincoln.org/links/
Gulf of Maine Council
on the Marine Environment Stream Barrier Removal Monitoring (A
standardized
framework for monitoring the ecological changes that occur when dams,
culverts,
and other stream barriers are removed.) - http://www.gulfofmaine.org/streambarrierremoval/
Natural Resources
Conservation Service Conservation Practice Standard 396, Fish Passage -
http://efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/references/public/ME/MEcode396.pdf
Natural Resources
Conservation Service Conservation Practice Standard 578, Stream
Crossing - http://efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/references/public/ME/dcode578.pdf
US Forest Service
FishXing (Free software is intended to assist engineers, hydrologists,
and fish
biologists in the evaluation and design of culverts for fish passage)
– www.stream.fs.fed.us/fishxing/
US Forest Service
Stream Simulation Design (An Ecological Approach to Providing Pas- sage
for
Aquatic Organisms at Road-Stream Crossings) - www.stream.fs.fed.us/fishxing/aop_pdfs.html
USDOT\FHWA Design for
Fish Passage at Roadway-Stream Crossings - www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/hydraulics/pubs/07033/
USDA Natural
Resources Conservation Service Federal Stream Corridor Restoration
Handbook
(NEH-653) www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detailfull/national/technical/alphabetical/water/wqtechnical/?&cid=stelprdb1043244
Maine Department of
Environmental Protection Natural Resources Protection Act (NRPA) Permit
by Rule
Standards Chapter 305 - www.maine.gov/dep/land/nrpa/
Maine Land Use
Regulation Commission rules Chapter 10 Roads and Water Crossings 10.27
D page
234 - www.maine.gov/doc/lurc/reference/rulechapters/Chapter10_Complete_effective08102011.pdf
US Army Corps of
Engineers New England District website - www.nae.usace.army.mil/regulatory
US Army Corps of Engineers
Maine General Permit www.nae.usace.army.mil/Regulatory/SGP/ME_GP.pdf
US Fish &
Wildlife Service “Habitat Conservation Plans Under the Endangered
Species Act”
- http://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/hcp.pdf
US Fish &
Wildlife Service “Consultations with Federal Agencies: Section 7
of the
Endangered Species Act” http://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/consultations.pdf