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Articles
Barge team clears river refuse
By Dennis Shaughnessey, dshaughnessey@lowellsun.com
September 6, 2008
LOWELL -- The strain of the whirring barge motor is audible as it struggles to break up massive amounts of debris that has accumulated just above the Pawtucket Falls. Read full article...
Rain wreaks havoc on river. Lawrence dam repairs halted; ducks dying upstream
By Jill Harmacinski, Staff writer
Eagle-Tribune
Photo by Roger Darrigrand
August 13, 2008
LAWRENCE — The water rushing over the Route 28 dam is not just a sign of this summer's torrential rainstorms, it also means repairs to the historic Great Stone Dam are at a standstill for at least the next couple of weeks.
Boaters were bracing for the water level to drop sharply, allowing for another summer of dam repairs. But more than 13 1/2 inches of rain fell on the Merrimack Valley since June, halting construction. Read full article...
Dude, where's my car? Friends, police pull rusted throwaways from Merrimack River
By Zach Church , Staff writer
Eagle-Tribune
September 6, 2007
METHUEN - There were bubbles, and then a tire popped to the surface. The water around it turned brown as mud shook loose into the Merrimack River.
What came next was a truck - or what was left of it. "Where's the rest of the car?" Rocky Morrison asked as the chassis was pulled from the water.
"Um ... Newburyport?" tow driver Scott Tomkiewicz guessed, only half-joking. The, as yet, unidentified truck, most of it disintegrated and the rest attacked by small bugs and slimy river life, was one of 22 vehicles that Morrison, Tomkiewicz and a dozen other people tried to pull from the river yesterday.
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Car Graveyard Discovered In Merrimack River
DRACUT, Mass. (WBZ) ― State police are investigating how many of at least 15 cars found in the Merrimack River were stolen, in what police say is a large operation.The underwater car graveyard was discovered last Saturday, and since then police have pulled 15 rusting cars out of the water. All of the cars were found in a 3-mile span of the river along Route 110 near the town of Dracut.
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This Investigation is All Wet
by Dennis Shaughnessey, Lowell Sun
September 14, 2007
DRACUT -- First it was one car, then another, and another. From his barge on the Merrimack River, Rocky Morrison could spot the submerged vehicles on a stretch of river: 22 by his count.
Morrison, a 42-year-old construction worker from Salem, N.H., has organized several cleanup projects along the river, fishing out old car parts, engines, tires and whatever else doesn't belong there, and hoisting them onto his vessel with a hook and crane.
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Radio
Building on the Success of the Clean Water Act
NH Public Radio
By Jon Greenberg on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
