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Kennebec River (Bingham)

Live conditions for Kennebec River (Bingham): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

1,610cfs→ lowfishable
Inside the wade band, stable low · 0% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage7.33 ft
Engine callGO 1610 cfs in the wade band
Gauge read 7:15 AM CDT · USGS 01046500. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Kennebec River (Bingham) is a tailwater below Wyman Dam in Maine, fished for trout, salmon — rainbow, brook, brown. On dam-controlled water the generation schedule is the whole story: the wade window is the no-generation block, and rising water at the gauge means the pulse is arriving.
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Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.

Access

  • Wyman Dam tailrace – west shore/Powerlines wade accesswalk in
  • Wyman Dam base access (below dam)carry
  • Old Railroad Bed / Bike Path river access (near former Gadabout Gaddis Airport)walk in
  • Bingham Public Boat Launchramp
  • Williams Dam Boat Launch & Canoe Portage (Solon, north end of town)ramp
  • Solon Bridge (Route 16) canoe/kayak put-inbridge
  • Route 201A Bridge / Evergreens Campground wade accessbridge
  • North Anson Dump Road primitive boat launchramp
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.