Dear River friends, The weather should be sunnier and drier this weekend and while the water may be a bit high from the near daily rains, the good news is that the E. coli counts will be low. Thanks to our wonderful water quality monitoring volunteers and our partners at the Franklin Waste Water Treatment […]

Click here to read the “setting Rivers Free” cover article from the August 4, 2014 edition of the Christian Science Monitor. The article tells the story of how hundreds of the United States’s rivers and watersheds are being restored. There are many local examples including Black Brook and McQuesten Brook in Manchester and the (former) […]

Bug Night and Rock Basket volunteers may enjoy this short article and video link from the Huffington Post. A mayfly hatch in Wisconsin was detectable by radar and reduced visibility in the area. Thank you to Barb Cook for sharing it with us all.

Dear river friends, It’s a mixed bag this week for E. coli results. We have 549.3 colonies of E. coli per 100 millitres (exceeding the Merrimack’s Class B standard of 406) on Site 5, just behind the Merrimack State Forest, in Boscawen to a low of 31.3 on Site 1 on the Pemigewasset River just […]

This one has the title of the world’s largest (but not heaviest) insect. The upper Merrimack is blessed with Megalopterans and they are very impressive but not quite this large! See the full story by clicking here.  

Dear river friends, The results for this week’s monitoring: ecoli 7.10.14 are far better than our last report for samples taken on June 26. All eleven of our sites’ E. coli counts fall well below the state’s Class B standard of 406 colonies per 100 millilitres. All but two sites fall within the Class A or designated […]

Dear River Friends, Here is the spreadsheet ecoli 6.26.14 with the results of this week’s river quality health data for samples taken by our beloved Bacteria People on Thursday morning, June 26, 2014. As you can see, three of the eleven sites exceeded the E. coli counts for Class B waters in the State of New […]

Please be sure to visit us at www.MerrimackRiver.org to learn more about the UMRLAC and its programs. You can also view the meeting schedule and download publications. We look forward to hearing from you.

Winter still has us in its icy grip and we will soon have our boots stuck firmly in the grasp of mud season. Why not lighten the mood by contemplating warm summer breezes along the riverbank enjoying the rich history and beauty of the Merrimack River. This meandering 110-mile waterway was plied by Native American […]

Any evening from now until mid-October will find anglers from the beginning of the Merrimack in Franklin to Garvins Falls trying their luck on the Merrimack River, hoping the next cast will be the one to prompt a decent fish tale. But not all those who plumb the great river’s depths are pursuing the trout, […]