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Education and Policy Specialist John Macone, with the Merrimack River Watershed Council ... you can also get on a map and see exactly where the sewage is coming out and how much sewage is coming ...
“You can see bacteria levels that exceed 10 times what’s considered safe for swimming,” said John Macone, a policy and education specialist at the Merrimack River Watershed Alliance ...
That was 30% more than the usual overflows over the past 10 years, according to the Merrimack River Watershed Council. But it was a reduction from 2023 — the year of the state's wettest summer ...
The Merrimack River Watershed Council provided the data on the record levels of combined sewer overflows, or CSOs – raw sewage mixed with runoff from urban street drains. The previous record ...
NEWBURYPORT — After years of intermittent testing, the Merrimack River Watershed Council is now investigating combined sewage overflows (or CSOs) almost directly after they occur. “We’re ...
Almost a million dollars is headed to New Hampshire for conservation work in the Merrimack River watershed. It’s a piece of the $139 million in grants awarded to 31 coastal states and U.S. territories ...
It all started with the water. And so the forest owes its existence to the Merrimack River. [music playing] All rivers rise and fall over the course of a day, a season, a year. For the last ...
the Merrimack River Watershed Council on Tuesday submerged a black, bucket-sized sensor into the murky water. The sensor provides close to real-time monitoring of combined sewage overflows ...
the Merrimack River Watershed Council submerged a black, bucket-sized sensor into the murky water this week. The sensor provides close to real-time monitoring of combined sewage overflows ...