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Montville, Maine

3 of its 5 inventoried bridges are rated poor (60%, against 15% statewide). Bedrock sits a median 31 ft down across 88 logs, deeper than the Maine median of 15 ft.

Median depth to bedrock

31 ft

middle half 15–51 ft · 88 logs

Bridges rated poor

3

of 5 inventoried

FEMA repair $, Waldo County

$38.6M

federal share since 2010 · county-wide

01 · Bridges

3 of 5 bridges are rated poor — above the Maine rate of 15%

Every highway bridge and large culvert in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory that stands inside Montville. Median age 78 years; 1 posted for weight.

0% good, 60% poor

FHWA good / fair / poor rating — the lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert.
  • Good0 · 0%
  • Fair2 · 40%
  • Poor3 · 60%
n = 5 structuresSource: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025
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BuiltStructures
1930s2
1940s1
1950s1
1960s1

The poor-rated bridges

Bridges rated poor in Montville
CarriesOverBuiltDaily traffic
ACADIA HWYKINGDOM BROOK19584,173
BURNHAM HILL RDSHEEPSCOT RIVER1965171
PEAVEY TOWN RDpostedSHEEPSCOT RIVER193529
Every poor bridge in New England

02 · Ground

Rock turns up a median 31 ft down

From 88 depth-to-rock records inside Montville (Maine Geological Survey wells database). Logs cluster where people drill wells and bore for roads, so treat this as the town’s pattern, not a site answer.

Half of Montville's logs reach rock between 15 and 51 ft

Depth to bedrock: 10th–90th percentile whisker, middle-half box, median tick; dashed line = Maine median.
median 31 ft
ME 15 ft
050100 ft
0102030400–5 ft5–10 ft10–20 ft20–50 ft50–100 ft100+ ft
n = 88 logsSource: Maine Geological Survey wells database
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Depth to rock (ft)Logs
0–51
5–106
10–2021
20–5037
50–10012
100+11

Rock within 10 ft

13%

of logs (40% across Maine). Shallow rock means ledge in excavations, refusal for driven piles and rock anchors rather than soil nails; deep ground means taller shoring and more groundwater. 25% of logs here go past 50 ft.

03 · Dams & disasters

Waldo County has drawn $38.6M in federal disaster repair since 2010

FEMA Public Assistance is reported by county, so the figure below is Waldo County-wide context, not a Montville number.

FEMA Public Assistance, Waldo County

$38.6M

Federal share obligated across 140 projects in 7 declared disasters since 2010. The largest category is emergency protective measures (87%); roads & bridges took $1.5M.
Dams, disasters & moving ground

04 · Next door

Montville and the 7 towns that border it

A dash means no data for that layer, not zero.
Montville compared with neighbouring towns
TownPoor bridgesRock depth
Montville, ME3 / 531 ft
Searsmont, ME1 / 918 ft
Appleton, ME0 / 310 ft
Knox, ME1 / 238 ft
Liberty, ME1 / 215 ft
Palermo, ME0 / 210 ft
Freedom, ME0 / 111 ft
Morrill, ME18 ft

Where these numbers come from

Method, sources & caveats

Montville is the Census county subdivision 2302746790 (Waldo County). Every record is placed here by its coordinates, not by the place name the source uses.

  • Towns are Census county subdivisions: cities, towns, plantations, and Maine/New Hampshire unorganized territories and townships. Every record is placed in a town by its coordinates (point-in-polygon), not by the source's own place label — so a bridge in Roxbury counts for Boston and a well in 'North Waltham' counts for Waltham.
  • Bridges: FHWA NBI 2025, highway structures ≥ 20 ft including large culverts. 'Poor' is FHWA's good/fair/poor rating (lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert ≤ 4). Percent-poor is shown only for towns with at least 5 structures.
  • Depth to bedrock is the median of driller- and boring-reported depths in the town, shown only where at least 10 logs exist. Water-well logs over-sample rural lots and hilltops; one town median never describes a particular site.
  • Bedrock depths use the same state databases and filters as the Bedrock & soils module (bedrock wells and borings that reached rock, 0 < depth ≤ 400 ft, exact re-filings dropped), but every log is placed in a town by its coordinates rather than the driller's town field, so town counts can differ slightly between the two pages. Connecticut and Rhode Island have no statewide public well-log database with depths.
  • Dams: only high-hazard-potential dams whose latest condition assessment is Poor or Unsatisfactory are counted (live NID). Connecticut and Rhode Island assessments may lag.
  • FEMA Public Assistance dollars are federal share obligated for disasters declared since 2010, reported by county — they are county context, not a town figure.
  • Grant awards are Massachusetts only (EEA Dam & Seawall program, MVP Action grants, CZM Coastal Resilience). Other states' programs are not yet included.
  • Ground-related permit counts cover only the municipal portals the pipeline reads (Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Worcester, Framingham, Providence, Portsmouth, Hartford and a few others) — an absent count means 'not covered', not zero.
Data as of
Sep 11, 2026
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Sep 11, 2026
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