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• Grant may be part answer to shifting Suncook River

  By KATHLEEN D. BAILEY The town of Epsom has completed its paperwork for a grant which Department of Environmental Services river specialist Steve Landry said will put the town and the Suncook River on a better course following the “Mother’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:46 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Suncook River, floods

• No money to fix Suncook River

  By Kathleen Bailey Steve Landry, Merrimack County Watershed Supervisor, has a simple answer for when the Suncook River should have been stabilized: “About two years ago,” the staff member of the Department of Environmental Services said. But Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:39 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, pembroke, Suncook River, Department of Environmental Services

• Kayaker almost drowns in swollen Suncook

  BY JENN McDOWELL An Epsom kayaker came dangerously close to drowning on Sunday, Aug. 10, when his kayak got stuck on a fallen tree in the Suncook River. It took rescue crews about 45 minutes to get to Dennis Jenkerson, 43, who was clinging to the tree Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3:29 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Suncook River, rescue, kayak

• Options to fix Suncook River after shift are daunting

  BY JENN McDOWELL After “100-year” flooding two years in a row, residents in towns along the Suncook River got some answers to questions surrounding the river’s change of course in May 2006, which led to worse flooding in Epsom, Allenstown Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:25 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Suncook River, floods

• Saving Epsom’s open space

  Thanks to the patience and determination of landowners Les and Joan Ottinger and sister Geraldine Priest, 171 acres in Epsom -- including wetlands, a beaver pond, the headwaters of a tributary of the Suncook River, rare rocky ridge habitat, 19 acres of Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:42 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Merrimack Valley, Suncook River, Society for the Protection of NH Forests, wetlands, SPNHF

• Suncook River to be studied

  BY NICHOLAS BROWN The Suncook River’s astounding change of course near Epsom’s center beat out a list of other environmental projects for a competitive grant. A $40,000 project will now determine what’s best for the centuries-old river, Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:15 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Merrimack Valley, Suncook River