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specific habitats within the impoundment, needed for | passage, spawning, egg incubation and survival of early | life stages.__In determining whether water quality is | sufficient to support other aquatic life, the department | shall consider the effects of thermal stratification to be | a natural condition and those waters may not be considered | to be failing their classification. |
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| C.__Between May 15th and September 30th, the number of | Escherichia coli bacteria of human origin in these waters | may not exceed a geometric mean of 142 per 100 milliliters | or an instantaneous level of 949 per 100 milliliters. |
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| | Sec. 3. 38 MRSA §466, sub-§8, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 698, §15, is | repealed and the following enacted in its place; |
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| | 8.__Indigenous.__"Indigenous" means historically or | currently present naturally in the State's waters without | having been brought directly or indirectly to the State's | waters. |
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| | Sec. 4. 38 MRSA §466, sub-§10-A is enacted to read: |
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| | 10-A.__Thermal stratification.__"Thermal stratification" | means a change in temperature of at least one degree Celsius | per meter of depth, causing waters below this temperature | gradient to remain isolated and not to mix with waters above | the temperature gradient. |
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| | Sec. 5. 38 MRSA §467, sub-§1, ķA, as affected by PL 1989, c. 890, Pt. | A, §40 and amended by Pt. B, §68, is further amended to read: |
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| A. Androscoggin River, main stem, including all | impoundments. |
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| (1) From the Maine-New Hampshire boundary to its | confluence with the Ellis River - Class B. |
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| (2) From its confluence with the Ellis River to a line | formed by the extension of the Bath-Brunswick | boundary across Merrymeeting Bay in a northwesterly | direction Turner Bridge in Turner - Class C. |
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| (3)__From the Turner Bridge in Turner to Gulf Island | Pond Dam - Class RI. |
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| (4)__From Gulf Island Pond Dam to a line formed by | the extension of the Bath-Brunswick boundary across | Merrymeeting Bay in a northwesterly direction - Class | C. |
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