PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • September 22, 2025
Sandy Carder, chair of Gray’s Resiliency Committee, discussed the town’s watershed management plan, developed in conjunction with several town- and county-level water protection associations. Carder said that after the state government came out with its Maine Won’t Wait climate action plan in 2020, Gray went through the process of joining the state Community Resilience Partnership. This allowed the town to apply for a $49,960 grant from the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future in 2024. Carder said the process of becoming a Community Resilience Partner included surveys and outreach, and that one of the priorities that kept coming up the most was water quality, leading to the Resiliency Committee coming up with the idea of the watershed management plan to address.