Merrimack River Part 1: Winning the Right to Pollute
Series: Merrimack River
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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This week, New Hampshire Public Radio is focusing on water and today we have the first of three reports about the Merrimack River. In simple numbers, the Merrimack is pretty impressive. It runs a hundred and eighty miles from the headwaters of the Pemigewasset River in the White Mountains to Newburyport, Massachusetts where it flows into the Atlantic. Over 5,000 square miles of land empty into the river?s watershed. It is used by kayakers, fishers, power boaters and swimmers. It powered the launch of America?s industrial revolution and still generates electricity today. New Hampshire Public Radio?s Jon Greenberg looks at the legacy of the river and how it shaped the state in ways both obvious and obscure.
Transcript
Where I'm standing is just off the Amoskeag Bridge in Manchester. From here, it's easy to see what the river once meant to this state. There's the line of old mill buildings running along the bank. Those mill jobs depended on the river. In front of us, there's the dam. The river was power. To the left, you can see the ruins of an old canal. The river meant transportation. The only thing you can't see is a sewer pipe, but the river also meant waste disposal.
In the 1800?s, the river was at the center of the economy. Today, it isn?t.
CUT: Stu ?We drive over it today and think nothing of it.?
That was Stu Wallace, an historian. At one point or another as I worked on this project, I heard the same opinion from just about everyone. The river is just there and its legacy is so plain to see, and so in the past, it hardly seems relevant. But in a way, what we see on the surface hides a...
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