Dear River and Watershed Friends, Upper Merrimack Monitoring Program volunteers continue to produce 100% sampling at 100% of the eleven sites on the Merrimack River from Franklin to Bow and on the Pemigewasset, Winnipesaukee, and Contoocook Rivers. Do you remember that very high count we had at Site 6 last week (they stopped counting at […]

Dear River and Watershed Friends, Good news: We had 100% sampling at 100% of our sites yesterday. The not-so-good news: The E. coli bacteria readings at one of our sites was high. There were suspended solids in the water taken with this sample. This result, unusual for the upper Merrimack River watershed, could be due to […]