WATERVILLE — Divers from the Maine State Police and Warden Service are searching the Kennebec River for signs of Ayla Reynolds, the toddler who was reported missing from her Waterville home seven months ago.

The search, which began Tuesday morning, is concentrated below the Brookfield dam in Waterville-Winslow. Spokesman Steve McCausland of the state Public Safety Department says police with dogs are also searching the banks of the river where the water’s been lowered.

McCausland says Tuesday’s search had been planned for three weeks, and the timing, which marks seven months from the day she was reported missing, is coincidental. Several searches of the Kennebec and other Waterville-area waterways have been conducted, and the area being searched Tuesday had not been checked.

Ayla was 20 months old when she was reported missing.