© 2024 Maine Public

Bangor Studio/Membership Department
63 Texas Ave.
Bangor, ME 04401

Lewiston Studio
1450 Lisbon St.
Lewiston, ME 04240

Portland Studio
323 Marginal Way
Portland, ME 04101

Registered 501(c)(3) EIN: 22-3171529
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Scroll down to see all available streams.
Attention Radio listeners! WMED-FM & HD2 89.7 Calais are off the air as engineers work on upgrading necessary equipment.

St. George develops a 3D model of town coastline

Whitehead Island Lighthouse in St. George, Maine.
David Nicholls
/
via flickr
Whitehead Island Lighthouse in St. George, Maine.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills was in St. George Friday to see a 3D depiction of the town's coastline.

Town manager Rick Erb says the model will help local planners anticipate how the effects of rising sea levels could affect St. George, which has roughly 125 miles of coastline.

"We've already seen the impacts of rising seas on town roads and public property and private property," Erb says. "And we were fortunate to get some grant funding from the State of Maine to study that further."

Erb says he used the Community Resilience Partnership grant to hire the engineering firm Sebago Technics to develop the 3-D model, which was demonstrated to Mills on Friday.

Erb calls it a good baseline for future coastal planning.

Murray Carpenter is Maine Public’s climate reporter, covering climate change and other environmental news.