Volunteers Help Save Dying Coastal Marsh ; a Pemaquid Water Association Study Shows the Project Succeeded.

Portland Press Herald › January 16, 2008

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A few years ago, Joan Lyford noticed that something was wrong with the salt marsh near her home on Pemaquid Beach in Damariscotta. Culverts at a nearby bridge had collapsed, and the six-acre marsh was not draining.

"It was very clear that the marsh was dying," Lyford said.

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Volunteers Help Save Dying Coastal Marsh ; a Pemaquid Water Association Study Shows the Project Succeeded.

So Lyford, now 78, led a campaign to replace the bridge and restore the marsh. Today, about six years later, it appea...

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