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	Androscoggin Guide Service
		I cover 80+ miles of river with my boats from the NH boarder to Auburn ME; this allows me to accommodate trips lasting an afternoon or up to a week or longer; you will never fish the same body of water twice unless you want to.
		Another plus to using a john boat is that on some sections of the river it eliminates the shuttle which gives you more time fishing the river than in a vehicle riding.
		The river is lined with numerous varieties of trees and shrubs with many colors.
	www.androscogginguideservice.com /index.htm (478 words)

	Androscoggin River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Androscoggin River is a river in the US states of Maine and New Hampshire, in northern New England.
		The river runs by many well known sites in Maine, including Bates College in Lewiston, and Bowdoin in Brunswick.
		The Androscoggin was once badly polluted by a variety of textile mills, paper-making factories, and other industries located along its banks, but has benefitted greatly from environmental work and the departure of certain types of industry from the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Androscoggin_River (167 words)

	Northeastern Naturalist: Genotoxicity in Androscoggin River smallmouth bass
		Riverside industries have not only used the river for a power source but also have found it to be a convenient place to dispose of effluents consisting mainly of by-products from manufacturing and domestic wastewaters.
		Although efforts to restore the Androscoggin River have led to improved water quality, there still remain a number of environmental toxins at levels that surpass the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines and that may be causing genotoxic damage in aquatic life.
		The purpose of this study is to determine the extent of genetic damage being experienced by a sentinel animal species, Micropterus dolomieu, sampled from specific locations along the Androscoggin River and to explore the correlations that may exist between ambient toxin levels and the degree of genetic damage seen in these fish.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3845/is_200201/ai_n9028698 (1226 words)

	Androscogin Watershed
		Today, the river's broad floodplain at Canton Point is planted each spring with corn as it was by the Indians for thousands of years.
		A fishway constructed in 1980 at the river's first dam at Brunswick is incapable of passing American shad.
		The last known Atlantic salmon to ascend the Androscoggin River to Great Falls in Lewiston was observed in 1816.
	www.mainerivers.org /androscoggin.html (1059 words)

	The Bear River Cabin - Your Maine Mountain Getaway
		A three hour ride from Boston, it is approximately 10 minutes from both the Sunday River Ski Resort and the scenic town of Bethel; 5 minutes from the Androscoggin River; and 5 minutes from scenic Grafton Notch State Park.
		The Bear River, the primary drainage system for the Mahoosuc Mountain Range, flows for almost 2,000 feet through the property, providing unparalleled water views as well as fishing (rainbow and brook trout) and swimming opportunities.
		Just up from the river is an area that fills with water in the winter and turns into a skating pond when frozen.
	www.bearrivercabin.com /default.html (480 words)

	ME/NH Androscoggin River: Enviros v Paper Mills - ALC Communications Center
		In the 1960s, the river was one of the most polluted in the United States, and the water quality was so poor that fish could not survive.
		Chuck Knox, executive director of the Androscoggin River Watershed Council, said he is certain Muskie carried the image of the Androscoggin with him to Washington, where he shepherded the bill through Congress until its adoption in 1972.
		Water from the Androscoggin and the Kennebec slows at The Chops, a narrow spot in the bay in Woolwich.
	www.americanloggers.org /ubb/Forum72/HTML/002903.html (6929 words)

	Clean-water activists take aim at Androscoggin - The Boston Globe
		No one disputes that Maine's third largest river is far cleaner than it was before passage of the Clean Water Act, when it was ''too thick to paddle and too thin to plow," according to one historical account.
		Gone are the thick sheets of brown foam that once covered stretches of the river, caused by noxious discharges from three paper mills, sewage treatment plants, and storm drains along its 174-mile route from the northern New Hampshire border to Merrymeeting Bay on Maine's midcoast.
		In Lewiston-Auburn, the twin cities the Androscoggin divides, century-old brick buildings that line the river were purposely built to face away from it.
	www.boston.com /news/local/maine/articles/2006/02/21/clean_water_activists_take_aim_at_androscoggin (1412 words)

	The Androscoggin River
		This is a story of one river in Maine with its come back, many other rivers in the state of Maine have also had the same thing happen.
		The Androscoggin River is a interesting river to me. I remember when I was kid growing up in the Brunswick area "1960's" how bad the river used to smell and people would turn there noses up at how bad it smelled.
		The Mighty Androscoggin River took quite a hit with the by-products that were dumped into the river during the production of these products.
	www.blazenetme.net /~n1ipa/andro1.html (1004 words)

	Androscoggin River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Androscoggin River is the northern border separating Brunswick from Topsham.
		The river has been very important in the development of the town of Brunswick.
		The value of damming the river and using the water power was recognized as early as 1753, when an "upper" dam was built.
	brunswick.k12.me.us /lon/brunswickhistory/process/androscoggin_river (194 words)

	Times Argus: Vermont News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1999, the fourth annual trek spawned the Androscoggin River Watershed Council, which now coordinates the event and labors to protect the watershed.
		Before cleansing of the river began, the Androscoggin River was full of industrial sludge and sewage.
		There was no market for Androscoggin River frontage, but slowly, as we started the trek, that shifted things," Polak said.
	www.timesargus.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050706/NEWS/507060313/1002/NEWS01 (481 words)

	Gray's Sporting Journal \| Invisible River
		Thanks to the mills’ and municipalities’ lengthy and expensive and sometimes foot-dragging cleanup efforts, the river below Berlin and Gorham is dramatically cleaner than it was only a few years ago, and trout like the rainbows and browns we were catching are growing fast and supporting a growing though still largely invisible fishery.
		Upriver near the New Hampshire line, rainbows outnumber browns and the smallmouth are few and far between, and as you near Rumford the proportion shifts toward browns and the smallmouth begin to grow in size and numbers.
		But as the shadows lengthened the fishing turned on, and soon we were hooking up on almost every cast—fat and savage dark-bronze smallmouth ranging from a pound and a half up to three pounds along with a couple of enormous rainbow chubs that actually jumped and stripped line.
	www.grayssportingjournal.com /stories/0405/angling.shtml (1035 words)

	The Rumford Falls Times
		For many years, the scenic spot by the Swift River has served not only as a state-owned rest area but has also been a popular swimming hole for visitors and residents alike.
		It is the site of a former mill that used the river as a source of power.
		He said that in his opinion, a parking lot should be kept in that area and the outhouse pumped and maintained, but there should be no picnic tables in order to save on maintenance.
	www.rumfordfallstimes.com /frontstory2.shtml (448 words)

	New Androscoggin map and guide boon to paddlers
		Increasing public usage of the river and promoting paddling on it are among the goals of the map and guide.
		Although its sources are in the Rangeley region, the Androscoggin as a named river begins at Lake Umbagog, which is formed at the confluence of the Rapid River and Magalloway River on the Maine-New Hampshire border.
		Marking the 21 dams that control the Androscoggin between Umbagog and the sea is nearly as important.
	outdoors.mainetoday.com /canoeing/011014androscoggin.shtml (763 words)

	Maine's Androscoggin River Comeback (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The 34-mile stretch of the Androscoggin from the New Hampshire border to Rumford is the most underrated and underfished trout river in the East.
		The Wild River, for example, is a rock-ribbed mountain stream that drops precipitously, splashing through pools not much larger than a kitchen sink, before entering the Androscoggin at Gilead.
		Artificial lures are required on the upper Androscoggin, with slightly more than half of the fishermen preferring flies to spinning tackle, according to Bill Murphy, a guide living in Bethel, who grew up on the river.
	www.newenglandgameandfish.com /fishing/trout-fishing/ng_aa063304a (1410 words)

	Maine's Androscoggin River Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Androscoggin River report May 21, 2005 Water temp 50F Both the Trout and Bass fishing are very good now.
		This is something that a big river offers the angler; in a short distance you have several riffles, pools, and runs that can all hold fish.
		My client wanted his adult son, who is a novice fly caster, to get some experience playing some good-sized fish, and the bass, coming off a hard winter looking for anything to eat, were the best choice to do just that.
	www.prsc.org /_smalltalk1/00000073.htm (320 words)

	Title 38 - §467. Classification of major river basins
		All surface waters lying within the boundaries of the State that are in river basins having a drainage area greater than 100 square miles that are not classified as lakes or ponds are classified in this section.
		Androscoggin River, minor tributaries - Class B unless otherwise specified.
		Further, the license limits for total residual chlorine and bacteria for existing direct discharges of wastewater to this segment as of January 1, 2003 must remain the same as the limits in effect on that date and must remain in effect until June 30, 2009 or upon renewal of the license, whichever comes later.
	janus.state.me.us /legis/statutes/38/title38sec467.html (2207 words)

	Androscoggin Watershed
		The Androscoggin begins in northwestern Maine at Umbagog Lake, journeys through New Hampshire, then re-enters Maine near Bethel, eventually joining the Kennebec at Merrymeeting Bay.
		While the Penobscot was primarily a logging river and the Kennebec a transportation corridor, the Androscoggin has traditionally been Maine's principal industrial river.
		Thanks to a 1000 foot drop from its headwaters to the sea, the Androscoggin has an average descent of 8 feet per mile--a swift flowing, large volume river provides an excellent power source.
	www.mainerivers.org /androscoggin.htm (148 words)

	Environmental History of the Androscoggin River, Maine and New Hampshire
		The Androscoggin Land Trust is a watershed-wide land trust dedicated to the health of the Andros coggin river and its watershed.
		Along the Androscoggin, the gifts of the river — what now would be called the natural capital of the river — were often of special significance in determining where people settled, and what economic activities dominated the communities.
		While the river still has high concentrations of mercury and dioxins in some of its sediments — problems that will take decades or centuries to clear up — it is now a significant recreational resource to the local communities along its banks.
	abacus.bates.edu /acad/depts/environ/projects/AndroscogginTimeline.html (8748 words)

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		Lewiston and Auburn's common roots are inextricably entwined with the Androscoggin River and the industrial base it spawned.
		Androscoggin, an Indian word, is known to have several meanings, including "the turbid foaming crooked snake," and "fish coming from the spring," and "the presence of migratory fish (i.e., alewife, salmon, shad and bass)." The Great Falls of this river made this site the ideal location for the cities of Lewiston and Auburn.
		At sites along the river bank, the Cowan, originally a woolen mill, and the Libbey, a cotton mill, were the first textile mills in the area to take advantage of the river's water power even before the canal was completed.
	www.androscoggincounty.com /visitor/latour.html (4508 words)

	Cleaning Up the Androscoggin River
		The Clean Water Act was passed in 1972, crafted by Senator Edmund Muskie, and inspired by the heavily polluted Androscoggin River.
		Today, parts of the Androscoggin River still do not meet Clean Water Act standards, because the Verso mill in Jay (formerly International Paper) refuses to be a responsible corporate steward of the river.
		The Androscoggin from that point on has never met even the bare minimum standards of the Clean Water Act, passed in 1972.
	www.nrcm.org /issue_androscoggin.asp (460 words)

	Androscoggin River, New Hampshire, white water, Errol Rapids
		The Errol Rapids section of Androscoggin River in New Hampshire is 0.5 miles long and is a class II stretch of white water according to American Whitewater.
		This stretch of Androscoggin River, New Hampshire has an average gradient of 35 fpm.
		Androscoggin River, Errol Rapids is a stretch where the paddling is not very challenging, this part of the river is good for those without a great deal of whitewater experience, It's probably ok to go paddling here even if you think your paddling abilities aren't very good.
	www.riverfacts.com /rivers/11851.html (502 words)

	Lewiston starts 'new chapter' - The Washington Times: Business - April 22, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Androscoggin County's population climbed from 91,279 in 1970 to an estimated 104,805 in 2002, according to census data.
		Traditional industry in Lewiston and Auburn was built around water power along the Androscoggin River, a rocky waterway dividing the cities and bordered by brick mill buildings.
		But the river, once the backbone of the timber and textile industries, now is considered a scenic attraction and recreation destination.
	www.washtimes.com /business/20040421-114515-3667r.htm (2134 words)

	N.H. Weekly Fishing Report -- August 21, 2003 -- N.H. Fish and Game
		A view of the Androscoggin River and historic boom piers from the Milan bridge.
		Along this stretch of river, it is very common to see fly-fishermen wading in the water or along the banks.
		The river is a great place for anglers who want to get away from a busy day and relax in the wild and catch a wide variety of fish.
	www.wildlife.state.nh.us /Fishing/Fishing_Reports/Fishing_Reports_2003/fishing_report_082103.htm (1804 words)

	ESPN.com - Bassmaster - BASS Destination: Androscoggin River smallmouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The river's upper sections in northern New Hampshire are renowned for trout and landlocked salmon fishing, and good trout populations are found all the way south to Berlin, N.H. A few miles south of there, the river turns east and crosses the Maine border, finally emptying into the ocean at Merrymeeting Bay in Brunswick.
		My wife, Lillian, and I fished the river for five days in late September, and we can attest that the bass fishing was about as good as it gets.
		It's a small river and is easily waded or fished out of a small canoe, and it's loaded with 12- to 16-inch smallies.
	sports.espn.go.com /outdoors/bassmaster/news/story?page=bass_fea_dest_1202_androscoggin (1085 words)

	Androscoggin River Watershed Council - Intro
		The Androscoggin is one of the largest rivers in Maine.
		And to the west, the Connecticut River Watershed.
		The Androscoggin River Valley at Bethel, Maine, with the Presidential Range of New Hampshire in the background
	www.avcnet.org /arwc/intro.html (347 words)

	Androscoggin River Fish Health Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Low angler interest was attributed to the continued perception of the river as being highly polluted, and the issuance of a fish consumption advisory on the Androscoggin River in 1987 (Boucher 1997).
		In 1985, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife conducted a survey of fisheries habitat on 35.7 miles of the Androscoggin River from the Maine-New Hampshire border in Gilead to Rumford Falls.
		The river is open to catch and release fishing for trout, salmon, bass from October 1 to November 30.
	www.maine.gov /ifw/fishing/fishlab/andriverfishhealthsurvey.htm (1593 words)

	State seeks to speed up cleanup of Androscoggin - Boston.com
		If the Baldacci administration has its way, the timetable for a controversial 10-year cleanup of the Androscoggin River will be cut in half.
		A proposal Thursday by the state Department of Environmental Protection to speed up the cleanup follows an investigation by the attorney general into the agency's procedures and a controversy that led to the resignation of Dawn Gallagher as DEP commissioner.
		"This is a big-time victory for the Androscoggin River and the people of the Androscoggin valley," said Steve Hinchman, a lawyer with the Conservation Law Foundation.
	www.boston.com /news/local/maine/articles/2006/05/12/state_seeks_to_speed_up_cleanup_of_androscoggin (371 words)

	MLT Acquires Bear River Rips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Bear River Rips property, located along the Androscoggin River across from the Route 2 and Route 26 intersection, has been a popular access site to the Androscoggin River for years.
		Since 1987, MLT has been interested in purchasing the property because of its potential as the best public access site to the Androscoggin River, and its proximity to the Rips, which are the only white water along the entire Androscoggin Canoe Trail.
		Improvement of the access road to the river, along with parking for 8 to 10 cars and two canoe trailers is planned.
	www.megalink.net /~mlt/canoetrail2.html (424 words)

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