Merrimack watershed bacteria results: June 18, 2024

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 […]

Bacteria days: results for June 29, 2017

Dear River and Watershed Friends, Good news: on our very first day of the season we not only had 100% sampling at 100% of our sites but the E. coli bacteria readings from yesterday are very low. None of the eleven samples taken yesterday, June 29, 2017, from the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee Rivers in Franklin to […]

Setting Rivers Free: river and watershed restoration goes mainstream

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) […]