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Epsom seeks options for stabilizing river
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By KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
Special to the Union Leader
Monday, Jun. 8, 2009
FEMA's rejection of its application for a competitive grant has the town seeking alternate funding to stabilize the Suncook River, which changed its course during the Mother's Day flood of 2006.
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YOUR COMMENTS
Leave the river alone, it was there long before the town was. That's nature, live with it.
As far as property values, the State of NH managed to lower property values for many shorefront owners with the CSPA but our assessments have NOT been lowered.
- Bill, Tuftonboro
FEMA is right. No money for this "project". What is the fix after all? Rivers meander. It is what rivers do. If you have property along a river, you run the risk of being affected when the river changes over time.
If you ask me it would be wrong of us humans to try and force the river to do what we want, where we want it. It has been shown that manipulation of rivers just makes flooding, erosion, etc. worse!
- Kat, Brentwood
The initial idea to change the river's course back to what it had been before was similar to the idea to rebuild the Old Man in Franconia Notch.
Stabilizing the new course may help short term, but in the longer term the river is sure to change course again, and again, and again.
Let mother nature be mother nature.
- Doug, Chichestr
The spot in question in the river is totally safe for swimming in, town officials should be fired for trying to line their pockets with extra and unneeded funds from this bad excuse for federal money. Bah.
- Fred, Epsom
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