A variety of content that may be useful to our members but doesn’t quite fit anywhere else on the website.
Various links we’ve found useful
- Cumberland County Soil and Water Conservation District
- Maine Department of Environmental Protection
- Maine Chapter 587
- Maine 38 M.R.S. § 480-Q(2-E)
- DEP Guidelines to regulation of water levels
- StreamStats
- Gulf of Maine Knowledge Base
- Lake Stewards of Maine Volunteer Monitoring
- Thomas Pond Water Quality (to 2018)
- NOAA Climate Data Online
- HDSC Annual Exceedance Probability (major rain events)
- US Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands mapper
- Springer research report on variations in lake levels
- USGS Maine Water Conditions
- Sebago Lake water levels
Documents on the initial formation of TPIA in 1984-85
Grants TPIA received
A scale sketch of the dam from 1985
1991 Pictures of the dam
Summary of 2023 TPIA Survey Results
Erosion and Sediment Control Best Practices
DEP page on use of fertilizer in watersheds
Maine Lakes morphometry spreadsheet
Wakeboarding law
In 2024 Maine passed a law restricting the use of Wake boating to areas at least 300′ from shore and with a depth of 15′ or more.
This map shows the approximate area where wakeboarding is legal on Thomas Pond by depth only. Some areas are still too close to shore to be legal.
Boating & fishing links
- Wakeboarding Law
- General summary of Maine Boating laws
- Fishing in Maine
- Fishermap Thomas Pond depth chart
- In view of the recent explosion on Sebago lake, Boating Safety
Other Organizations or programs working on lake protection
- Lakes.me and Lakesmart
- Lakes Environmental Association
- Lake Stewards of Maine and Lakes of Maine
- Raymond Waterways
- Individual Casco/Raymond Lake Associations
- Crescent Lake Watershed Association
- Friends of Thomas Pond (facebook private group)
- Panther Pond Association
- Pleasant Lake/Parker Pond Association (facebook)
- Raymond Lake Association
Miscellaneous Maine lake and dam issues
Dam Keeper Tools (All tools are works in process)
Video: 12″ (19.3 cf/s) of water flow over the dam
Video: Beaver at the Dam (Sept 2023)
Want to find something else here or have a link we might want to include? Let us know what you would find interesting and/or useful to include on the site and we’ll certainly consider adding it.