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- Group wants to save NH dam (10/28/13)
NEWMARKET (AP) — A group of residents in Newmarket, N.H., wants to save the Macallen Dam on the Lamprey River. A consultant had told town councilors this year that it would cost $234,000 to make repairs and anywhere from $1.1 million to $4.6 million to bring the dam in compliance with a state mandate to handle a 100-year flood.
- New law makes dam owners more responsible (7/22/13)
The owners of thousands of dams across Connecticut will soon be responsible for making sure their structures are safe, and some will have to come up with an emergency plan in case something goes wrong.
- Mousam River dams at turning point (7/22/13)
For more than a century, a series of dams has prevented fish from swimming up and down the Mousam River as it wends its way through York County to the Atlantic Ocean