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Sevee & Maher Engineers (SME) Acquires James W. Sewall Infrastructure Engineering and Survey, New Jersey Groundwater Resources Firm

January 20, 2026
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CUMBERLAND, ME – Cumberland-based Sevee & Maher Engineers, Inc. (SME), a multidisciplinary engineering and environmental consulting firm, has acquired the civil and traffic engineering and survey arms of James W. Sewall Company (Sewall) of Bangor, Maine, and the water resources firm Uhl & Associates (Uhl) of Lambertville, New Jersey. SME’s acquisition of Sewall bolsters SME’s […]

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Maine Traffic Movement Process

February 1, 2024
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by Diane Morabito, PE, PTOE Among the myriad of tasks developers face with new projects, the traffic movement permit process is an important one to remember to start early and enlist expert help. Any development project that generates 100 or more one-way trips in any hour of the week requires a traffic movement permit (TMP) […]

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Dirty pothole and alligator pavement. Better Roads field application helps with potholes and frost heaves through pavement management

Potholes and Frost Heaves Again This Year?!?

February 27, 2024
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by Laura Teisl, GIS Analyst Winter is harsh on Maine roads. With limited funding available each year, municipalities struggle to select which roads to repair from a list with more roads in bad condition than good.  Fix the torn up, pothole laden roads to keep complaints down? Throw some skim coat on the edges of the heavily […]

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Innovation in Every Era: Sewall’s Enduring Legacy in Mapping & Beyond

December 4, 2024
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Sewall’s 1980s fleet: planes, cameras, photographers and pilots. From left: Charlie Peters, Roy Klitch, Alan Grant, Donna Dettmer, Jim Cote, Bob Foss, Scott Bergquist, Frank Bouchard, and Mark Averill Few companies can claim a legacy as intertwined with the state of Maine as Sewall Engineering, formerly the James W. Sewall Company. Since its founding in […]

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Pearl Street Reconstruction Project, Biddeford, Maine

Sewall Wins Maine ASCE’s Kitty Breskin Project Award

May 31, 2024
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James W. Sewall Company (Sewall) recently won the Maine ASCE’s Kitty Breskin Project Award for the Pearl Street Reconstruction project in Biddeford, Maine. The award is presented yearly for engineering projects showing innovation and contribution to the community in the same spirit as the late Kitty Breskin, P.E., a Maine DOT engineer and a past […]

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Remote Sensing for Agriculture

April 25, 2024
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by Katie Moran, Remote Sensing Analyst As discussed in our prior introductory blog, “What is Remote Sensing and What are its Applications?,” remote sensing provides opportunities for many industries to increase efficiencies and collect valuable insights that are not attainable from the ground. Agriculture is a prominent example of an industry that benefits from remote […]

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The Evolution of Tax Increment Financing

April 9, 2024
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by Andrew Nelson Municipal Tax increment financing (TIF) is a financing tool adopted by the State of Maine that enables a municipality or county to leverage new property taxes captured by a specific project or projects in a designated geographic district. The adoption of a TIF district allows a local government authority to shelter new […]

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What is remote sensing and what are its applications? RGB/CIR farmland image

What is Remote Sensing and What are its Applications?

March 14, 2024
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By Katie Moran, Remote Sensing Analyst Thanks to the growing popularity of personal drones, people may be more familiar with remote sensing than they might think. Remote sensing—at its simplest level—is the act of gathering information about an object without touching it. Most commonly, however, remote sensing refers to collecting images or heights of objects […]

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