Storm Response and Preparedness in Working Waterfront Communities
Join us for vital community conversations to enhance our response, preparedness and resilience in the face of increasing storm events.
REGISTRATION
Ten community convenings are happening this fall and early winter throughout Maine coastal and working waterfront communities to explore how we can better respond to and prepare for future storms like the ones that hit us last January. Each convening is being organized collaboratively with local leaders and contacts, and we are grateful for their help!
The goals of this effort are to:
- Create space for community members across diverse sectors to take stock of their working waterfronts within the context of the community’s resilience since the storms.
- Share resilience and working waterfront planning work across the region: recent, underway, or planned.
- Learn about resources for public and private working waterfront resilience.
- Identify systems and networks that would be useful to have in place locally to support working waterfronts in anticipation of future storms.
Our focus regions (see map here)
Please note this information is getting updated daily so please check back often.
- Southport/Boothbay/Boothbay Harbor/Bristol/South Bristol (November 18, 2024 5-7 PM, Coastal Rivers Land Trust, 3 Round Top Lane, Damariscotta)
- Phippsburg/Georgetown/Arrowsic (November 20, 2024 5-7 PM at The Grant Building, 31 Centre St. Bath)
- Portland/South Portland/Casco Bay Islands (December 3, 2024, 5-7 PM, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, 350 Commercial St, Portland)
- Kittery (December 5, 2024, 5-7 PM, Kittery Community Center, 120 Rogers Road, Kittery)
- Roque Bluffs/Machias/Machiasport/Whiting/Cutler/Trescott/Eastport/Lubec (December 10, 2024, 5-7 PM, Washington Academy, 66 Cutler Rd, East Machias)
- Jonesport/Addison/Beals (December 12, 2024, 5-7 PM, Peabody Library, 162 Main St., Jonesport)
- Milbridge/Steuben/Harrington (December 16, 2024, 5-7 PM, 5-7 PM, 49 Smithville Road, Steuben Fire Hall, Steuben)
- MDI/Cranberry Isles/Trenton (January 27, 2025, location TBD)
- Blue Hill/Brooklin/Brooksville/Castine/Penobscot/Sedgwick/Surry (January 29, 2025, 5:30-7:30 PM, Blue Hill Public Library, 5 Parker Point Rd, Blue Hill)
- Sullivan/Sorrento/Hancock/Gouldsboro/Winter Harbor (TBD)
Snacks will be provided!
Registration
Please REGISTER for this free event if you would like to attend. A few days before the event for which you have registered, you will receive an email with final details, including the address.
For more information, please email Katrina Armstrong
Resources
This resource document is being shared during the ten community convenings throughout Maine coastal and working waterfront communities from November 2024 to January 2025. This document will be updated and is intended to be used into the future and shared broadly.
Maine Sea Grant, working in partnership with Maine Coastal Program, Island Institute and UMaine MARINE, has received funding from the National Sea Grant office to plan these convenings in response to the January 2024 storms.
