GEORGETOWN — The Georgetown Historical Society will host Kennebec Estuary Land Trust’s Ruth Indrick and Becky Kolak who will lead a discussion about the water quality of the lower Kennebec region’s rivers, wetlands and coastal areas on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
A news release describes the discussion as follows:
Water quality is vital to recreational and commercial shellfish harvesting in Georgetown and this particular program will focus on Georgetown’s clamming resources and the Department of Marine Resources’s Kennebec Estuary Shellfish Area Project.
The DMR project is designed to study and evaluate the relationship between water quality and shellfish meat quality on the shellfish flats of Georgetown and five other lower Kennebec River towns.
It is managed by the Midcoast Council of Governments and coordinated by KELT in partnership with DMR and shellfish conservation committees from Georgetown, Phippsburg, Arrowsic, Woolwich, West Bath and Westport Island.
The program is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 371-9200 or email georgetownhistorical@gmail.com.
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