By JENN McDOWELL  The Federal Emergency Management Agency is funding an independent study on the 2006 and 2007 flooding of New Hampshire rivers. The Suncook River is one of the prime focus areas of the study, which will look into the differences between the two flooding episodes, possible reasons for the excessive flooding and ways to ...

By: Jenn McDowell As 2007 comes to a close, we take a look back on the year. One issue common to many towns in the Banner’s coverage area was the floods that came for a second time in two years. Among our top stories of the year was the Hooksett Town Council’s decision to fire four town employees, which gained international coverage ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNThe ravages of flooding don’t necessarily end when the flooding recedes, as several pockets of area residents can now testify. For people in Epsom’s Kingstowne Mobile Home Park – parts of which were overtaken by the Suncook River during the height of mid-April’s 100-year flood event – the waters ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNResidents in a low-lying Epsom neighborhood are reeling after the second major flood in 18 months destroyed their mobile homes, toppled their fuel tanks and left septic systems floating in their yards, local safety and health officials said. Kingstowne Mobile Home Park, off Route 28 south of Webster Park, was ravaged by the ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNKen Rowe bought a shiny new Mercury Comet in 1965. Forty-one years later, in May 2006, floodwaters ripping through his low-lying neighborhood off Riverside Park Drive got as high as the Comet’s roof. Still, Rowe, a former teacher with no flood insurance for his home of nearly three decades, pledged to get the Comet running ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEY For Zita Lamb, the flooding in Bedford on Monday, April 16, brought back some bad feelings she had toward the town after last year’s Mother’s Day floods. The town didn’t fix her property’s flooding problem when they replaced a culvert under the broken Gault Road, she said. “The point is, the ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNRoads closed, bridges washed away and hundreds of residents were forced to abandon their homes to find safer ground once again as a spring nor’easter ravaged the state. And in Allenstown, in a low-lying neighborhood that’s been perpetually abused by flooding, five people were arrested by press time for disorderly ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNSome brave bystanders in Auburn rescued a local woman from a convertible that was quickly sinking in frigid floodwaters by cutting through her roof with a screwdriver. “Another minute and it would have been over,” said Paul Lynn, who provided the screwdriver. Early in the afternoon of Monday, April 16, during some of ...