Staff and service members with Lake Auburn Watershed Protection Commission collaborate to implement projects and other tasks to balance out the focus areas.
>Connecting the community with the watershed and building relationships with our community through events, newsletters, recreation planning, and technical assistance
>Controlling erosion and run-off through the installation of nature-based solutions and resilient infrastructure, such as vegetative buffers and Stream Smart crossings
>Monitoring land use activity throughout the watershed and specific to shoreland zones, working with property owners to implement protective strategies on their own properties
>Maintaining partnerships to assist in protecting Lake Auburn:
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- City of Auburn Planning, Permitting, and Code, centered on local permitting and land use management within the Lake Auburn Watershed Overlay District
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- Lake Auburn Drinking Water Work Group with Maine DOT and Maine CDC’s Drinking Water Program, centered on run-off control on roads surrounding Lake Auburn
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- Shore Corps Program with Maine Conservation Corps and Maine DEP’s climate and erosion control programs, centered on nature-based solutions to shoreline erosion
These are just highlights of the day-to-day tasks carried out by the watershed team. This work is guided not only by LAWPC’s mission and staff’s strategic work plans, but is based on the best available information from watershed inspections and updated guidance on practices from the State.
Staff and service members with Lake Auburn Watershed Protection Commission collaborate to implement projects and other tasks to balance out the focus areas.
>Connecting the community with the watershed and building relationships with our community through events, newsletters, recreation planning, and technical assistance
>Controlling erosion and run-off through the installation of nature-based solutions and resilient infrastructure, such as vegetative buffers and Stream Smart crossings
>Monitoring land use activity throughout the watershed and specific to shoreland zones, working with property owners to implement protective strategies on their own properties
>Maintaining partnerships to assist in protecting Lake Auburn:
- City of Auburn Planning, Permitting, and Code, centered on local permitting and land use management within the Lake Auburn Watershed Overlay District
- Lake Auburn Drinking Water Work Group with Maine DOT and Maine CDC’s Drinking Water Program, centered on run-off control on roads surrounding Lake Auburn
- Shore Corps Program with Maine Conservation Corps and Maine DEP’s climate and erosion control programs, centered on nature-based solutions to shoreline erosion
These are just highlights of the day-to-day tasks carried out by the watershed team. This work is guided not only by LAWPC’s mission and staff’s strategic work plans, but is based on the best available information from watershed inspections and updated guidance on practices from the State.