Article: From salt marsh to lake - and back again ; The state will not replace the washed-out dam that created Sherman Lake in Newcastle in the 1930s.

DENNIS HOEY Staff Writer
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
02-01-2006
From salt marsh to lake - and back again ; The state will not replace the washed-out dam that created Sherman Lake in Newcastle in the 1930s.
Byline: DENNIS HOEY Staff Writer
Edition: Final
Section: Local & State

The state will not replace the dam that created Sherman Lake in Newcastle, the Maine Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.

Instead, Transportation Commissioner David Cole said, the department will work with other agencies that are interested in restoring the former lake to a tidal salt marsh.
The decision comes more than three months after heavy rain washed out a dam that separated the freshwater lake ...

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