Friends of Acadia will receive $308,000 in state funding from the Maine Natural Resource Conservation Program to support an ongoing restoration project at Acadia National Park. The funding will help address damage caused by climate change at Great Meadow, the park’s largest freshwater wetland, and prepare the park for future impacts, including intense rainfall, droughts, rising sea levels, and fewer native plants.
“This restoration work is an effort to support the hydrology, or water flow, of the wetland,” Friends of Acadia spokesperson Perrin Doniger told Bangor Daily News. “Particularly as Acadia experiences more frequent and intense storms and heavy rains in winter instead of snow.”
The Gulf of Maine, which surrounds Acadia, is among the fastest warming sections of ocean in the world: during the past century, temperatures have risen 3 degrees Fahrenheit. This warming impacts places like Great Meadow by causing heavier rainfall, coastal flooding, and tidal surging.
The funding will be used to expand the ongoing restoration project on watershed areas, a hydrologic region where all water drains to a single outlet, above and below the 116-acre Great Meadow, with the intention of sustaining a healthier wetland habitat, Doniger said.
The multi-part project will also restore the historic Abbe Stream to a more natural streambed, connecting it to the floodplain of Cromwell Brook, the main waterway that passes through the Great Meadow. Currently, stream flooding limits trail accessibility during large storms. The shift will not entirely eliminate flooding but instead shorten its duration.
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