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Suncook River plan on track
Full Story
by Matt Spolar, Monitor Staff
May 29, 2911
Erosion? Blame reckless development
Full story
Letter from Shirley Dorrington, Warner, Concord Monitor
February 9, 2011
Lawmakers can't beat Mother Nature
Full story
by Monitor Staff
February 6, 2011
Allenstown-Pembroke
DES: Use 'science-based treatments
Full story
By Mathew Spolar / Monitor staff
February 4, 2011
Allenstown-Suncook River
Lawmakers: $7 million to re-route river
Full story)
By Mathew Spolar / Monitor staff
February 1, 2011
Epsom
Officials try new course on
river
Full story)
State money could aid Suncook repair
By Matthew Spolar
/
Monitor staff
June 26, 2010, Concord Monitor
Suncook River
Engineers Outline Option for Suncook River
Full story)
May 30, 2008, Concord Monitor
Suncook River
River's
new path is likely to stay
Epsom residents eye transformed
Suncook
Full story)
(Concord Monitor)
Updated working draft of the geomorphic assessment analysis memo as prepared by the VHB project team for the Suncook River Avulsion Study. February 20, 2008
Suncook River
Postscripts - endangered mussels.
Full story)
(Concord Monitor
7/24/2006)
NASA Earth Observatory.
Views from Space
Suncook River
Shifts Course
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Suncook River
Officials eye future of Suncook
Flood aid is focus of state, federal meeting.
Full story)
(Concord Monitor
6/22/2006)
Suncook River
Their river ran dry > Mussels need workout
Since river ran dry, they've been hurting
Full story)
(Concord Monitor
6/9/2006)
Epsom:
River’s
future is still fluid
State, residents debate Suncook's new route.
(Full story)
(Concord Monitor
6/6/2006)
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When the Suncook River charted a new course last month, it tore through trees and land, including a gravel and sand pit. When the river water flooded homes, it also dumped the eroded silt along the Suncook's banks. Since the floods ended, the Suncook's waters in Epsom, Pembroke and Allenstown have remained brown. (Full story) (Concord Monitor 6/4/2006) |
Epsom
Reconstructing the Landscape
One of the biggest challenges
in figuring out just why the Suncook River jumped its banks in Epsom last month
is reconstructing what the landscape along the riverbank looked like before it
was flooded, scientists say.
(Full story)
(Concord Monitor 6/4/2006)
Epsom
A river
doesn’t run through it
The Suncook River in Epsom hasn't been the same since last month's floods:
Now, it runs through farm fields and a sand pit, and a riverfront restaurant
overlooks a dry river-bed.
(Full story)
Concord Monitor 6/4/2006
Epsom
Before the next river changes its course
'Suncook," in the language of the Abenaki Indians, means "to the rocks," and
rocks are all the Mothers Day flood left behind of a two-mile stretch of the
Suncook River in Epsom.
(Full story)
Concord Monitor 5/26/2006
Epsom
Wandering
river’s future unclear
The state
has never dealt with a situation like the one in Epsom, where the Suncook River
shifted hundreds of meters during last week's flood, skirting two dams, creating
about a mile of new river through a sand pit and leaving a similar length of...
(Full story)
Concord Monitor 5/23/2006
Epsom
Mussels
lose their river home
When Susi Von Oettingen heard that the Suncook River had changed course in
Epsom last week, her mind turned to mussels. The river's rocky, sandy bottom was
just the kind of habitat that the endangered brook floater mussel prefers.
(Full story)
Concord Monitor 5/23/2006
Epsom
Officials want river back where
it was
Recent flooding caused the Suncook River to blow out along one curve and cut
a new path. The water washed away trees, a dirt road and a sand pit. Now the old
river bed is dry.
(Full story)
Concord Monitor (Associated Press) 5/23/2006
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