Dear river and watershed friends, The sixth and final Bacteria Day of 2025 on August 19, brought 100% results from the Upper Merrimack Monitoring Program volunteers’ sampling at 100% of the eleven sites from Franklin to Bow, comprising the Pemigewasset, Winnipesaukee, Contoocook, and Merrimack Rivers. We know that you have heard it before but it’s […]
By DANIEL SARCH, THE LACONIA DAILY SUN Sep 3, 2024 FRANKLIN — Three volunteers for the Upper Merrimack Watershed Association crossed the Central Street Bridge over the Pemigewasset River, looking out over the foggy horizon. At 7 a.m. on Aug. 27, Mike Hamilton, environmental engineer for Watts Water Technologies, threw a small bucket over the bridge into […]
Dear river and watershed friends, July 30, our fourth sampling day (of six) this summer continues with 100% sampling at 100% of our sites. Thank you, volunteers. We continue to provide you with these bi-weekly reports for eleven sites from Franklin to Bow, comprising the Pemigewasset, Winnipesaukee, Contoocook, and Merrimack Rivers. We know that you […]
Dear river and watershed friends, July 2, our second sampling day (of six) this summer continues with 100% sampling at 100% of our sites. Thank you, volunteers. We continue to provide you with these bi-weekly reports for eleven sites from Franklin to Bow, comprising the Pemigewasset, Winnipesaukee, Contoocook, and Merrimack Rivers. There were short, flashy […]
Dear river and watershed friends, June 18, Opening Day for Bacteria Days, an exciting event for we volunteers, begins our bi-weekly 2024 water quality monitoring. It was an auspicious start with 100% sampling at 100% of the eleven sites from Franklin to Bow, comprising the Pemigewasset, Winnipesaukee, Contoocook, and Merrimack Rivers. June 18 began on […]
Dear river and watershed friends, The 2022 bacteria sampling season closed on this sixth event, September 6, 2022, with nearly 100% samples collected by 100% of its volunteers at eleven sites from Franklin to Bow. We know that you have heard it before but it’s important to remember that the results shown below are the […]
Dear river and watershed friends, The 2022 bacteria sampling season continues on its fifth event (only one more to go for 2022) with 100% samples at 100% of its eleven sites from Franklin to Bow. We know that you have heard it before but it’s important to remember that the results shown below are the […]
Rock Basket Days are here again… Will you be there? Basket Deployment day: June 28, 2017 Basket Retrieval day: August 16, 2017 Rock basket days are finally here again. We are preparing a roster for the two big days. There is some flexibility in deployment and retrieval but we are shooting for seven weeks from […]
By DAVID BROOKS Monitor staff Tuesday, April 12, 2016 When a national organization added the Merrimack River to its list of the 10 most threatened rivers in America, its concern wasn’t one big thing but a whole lot of little things. You’re probably sitting underneath one of those things right now. “It’s not just pavement, […]
Bug Nights 2016, Chapter 8, March 23 Henry Finds a New Family by Liz Garlo It was a cold and drizzly night, but inside the St. Paul’s School biological lab, it was warm and the brightly lit aquaria bubbled cheerfully as people began arriving. An air of intimacy developed as the program manager and sampling […]
This letter is addressed to all those who, like the ostrich, bury their head in the sand other dark places. There, now that I have gotten that out of my system, it’s time to identify the challenges other than the obvious social and political ones. For the sake of limiting this letter’s length I will […]