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07/09/11 These recent sightings are compiled by Newburyport Birders. Report your sightings to Newburyport Birders at newburyportbirders@comcast.net or 978-462-4785. Visit www.newburyportbirders.com for more. Merrimack River, Newburyport: Common Goldeneye, Roseate Tern, Common Tern
07/04/11 LAWRENCE - The Lawrence-based NxStage Medical, Inc., a manufacturer of dialysis products, will be moving its corporate headquarters to the Riverwalk complex owned by developer Sal Lupoli. NxStage has signed an 11-year lease agreement with 350 Riverwalk LLC which will help launch a $100 million Phase 2 revitalization of the mill buildings on the Merrimack River, Lupoli said.
07/01/11 The Essex National Heritage Commission and the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission are working together to further develop the Merrimack River Trail, a long envisioned 50-mile multimodal recreational trail along the Merrimack River. The strategic planning project entails the engagement of trail advocates and municipal officials in the 17 Massachusetts communities that line the Merrimack River ...
06/01/11 Several months after heavy rains led to the release of 4.3 million small, plastic discs from the Hooksett wastewater treatment facility on the Merrimack River in New Hampshire, the discs have begun washing up on Martha's Vineyard beaches.
05/29/11 Hundreds of thousands of the half-dollar sized disks made their way down the Merrimack River, lodging along the shore and getting entangled in bushes, trees and debris in communities from the New Hampshire line through Cape Ann and at least as far afield as Nantucket.
05/27/11 It was a stormy cold day as the Westford Academy Crew Club participated in the 7th Annual Lowell Invitational Regatta on Sunday, May 15. The races are a sprint race of 2,000 meters on the Merrimack River. The race was open to high school participants. There were 34 crew clubs from 28 cities participating.
05/25/11 Connecticut Boat Club competed against and beat some of the best teams in the country at the Northeast Regional Championships held last weekend on the Merrimack River in Lowell, Mass. The top three...
05/25/11 Saugatuck Rowing Club won four races and qualified seven boats for next month's U.S. Youth Nationals with a strong performance at last weekend's Northeast Regionals on the Merrimack River in...
05/23/11 The continuing rain that keeps filling up local creeks and rivers has forced the Pawtucket Dam in Lowell, Mass., to delay its plans to lower the Merrimack River a few feet to enable it to work on repairs. As a result, the river level may be low over Memorial Day weekend between Lowell and Manchester, making it more difficult for people to launch their boats on the traditional start of the summer ...
05/02/11 A Jeep reported as stolen the night before in Manchester was fished out of the Merrimack River by Hooksett police Sunday morning.
04/29/11 The American Shad (Alossa sapidissima to you Latin fans) will soon be running the Merrimack River in great numbers. As the warm weather and spring rains come to New England, the rivers that flow down out of the mountains start to play host to a number of fish species that use these waters as their spawning medium. This has been a particularly long and hard winter with a lot of snow still in the ...
04/22/11 Millions of small plastic disks used to treat sewage escaped from a wastewater treatment plant in Hooksett last month. They flowed down the Merrimack River and into the Atlantic, littering shorelines throughout the Merrimack Valley, North Shore and New Hampshire seacoast. The accident caused an uproar amongst public officials.
04/04/11 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection announced on April 1 that no detections of radioiodine were found in samples taken from the Merrimack River, which runs through Tewksbury.
03/25/11 After the accidental release of millions of filter disks from its Merrimack River wastewater treatment plant on March 7, Hooksett recently hired Enpro, an environmental cleanup company, to collect and dispose of the small white plastic mesh disks that have washed up by the thousands on Seabrook beaches and along other seacoast beaches, said Town Manager Barry Brenner.
03/23/11 Hooksett Wastewater plant spilled millions The state has given the town of Hooksett 10 days to come up with a plan to collect millions of plastic disks that were swept from a wastewater treatment plant into the Merrimack River and are littering beaches in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Between 4 million and 8 million disks and about 250,000 gallons of partially treated wastewater were released ...
03/23/11 The state has given the town of Hooksett 10 days to come up with a plan to collect millions of plastic disks that were swept from a wastewater treatment plant into the Merrimack River and are littering beaches in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
03/22/11 Hooksett The superintendent of Hooksett's wastewater treatment plant said the town will be responsible for the costs of cleaning up millions of plastic disks that were swept into the Merrimack River and are now littering beaches in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Bruce Kudrick said workers are still trying to determine why 8 million disks washed out of the plant earlier this month.
03/22/11 The superintendent of a New Hampshire waste water treatment plant says the town of Hooksett will be responsible for the costs of cleaning up millions of plastic disks that were swept into the Merrimack River and are now littering beaches in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.,
03/17/11 New Hampshire officials now estimate 4 million to 8 million bacteria-eating white plastic disks escaped from a wastewater treatment plant on March 7 and into the Merrimack River, a dramatic increase from previous estimates.
03/17/11 More than 100 volunteers who combed beaches in Hampton, North Hampton and Seabrook on Thursday as part of an organized effort to clean up some of the estimated 4 million to 8 million small disks accidentally released into the Merrimack River when Hooksett's wastewater treatment plant overflowed during heavy rain on March 6.
03/15/11 Boats from the Clean River Project towed booms into place in two locations on the Merrimack River yesterday in hopes of catching more of the white plastic disks that escaped from the Hooksett, N.H., wastewater treatment plant last week. | 
