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Laconia Daily Sun7d

Franklin city council votes to conserve areas along Merrimack River

This city council voted to restrict certain activities along the Merrimack River at their meeting Aug. 4, with a goal of ...
Roads and Bridges3d

Massachusetts Starts Building Rourke Bridge Replacement

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation broke ground Wednesday on the Rourke Bridge replacement project in Lowell.

Decades after the Clean Water Act, pollution still threatens the ‘Mighty Merrimack’

Like people, rivers suffer from lack of care and concern. The 117 miles of the Merrimack River, known colloquially as the ...

Manchester prepares for start of ambitious $365 million storm drain project

Manchester is about to kick off its most ambitious public works project in more than a century with the aim of resolving a pollution problem for the Merrimack River.
The Lowell Sun on MSN5d

‘Decades in the making’: Officials break ground on long-awaited Rourke Bridge replacement

More than 40 years after the “temporary” Rourke Bridge was built across the Merrimack River, officials finally broke ground ...
The Daily News of Newburyport6d

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deploys monitoring equipment near south jetty

In an effort to further understand tidal patterns and water flow related to the south jetty at the mouth of the Merrimack River, the U.S. Army Corps of ...