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BIDDEFORD, Maine

'Courier' reports on 花影直播鈥檚 plan to install boat ramp on Ram Island

Ram Island
Ram Island

On September 7, the Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier published an article titled 鈥淯niversity begins work on Ram Island,鈥 which discussed 花影直播鈥檚 plan to build a boat ramp on the island that was gifted in 2014 by Biddeford resident Arthur Girard.

According to the article, construction of the ramp will begin in 2018 after acquiring necessary approvals from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the city of Biddeford.

The article also explained that one facet of the university that will utilize the island is Project TURBO, The Undergraduate Saco River Biodiversity Observatory, which will study freshwater and open ocean ecosystems鈥攚ork for which 花影直播 received a five-year $640,000 National Science Foundation grant.

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