by Rich Collins | Jan 14, 2016 | Interesting Facts and Stories
It seems as though we may finally get a real winter after all, but the warm period over the last two months was very out of character for Maine/New Hampshire. In Manchester this November, temperatures reached up into the 70’s, and on Christmas day it was 64...
by Rich Collins | Feb 26, 2015 | Interesting Facts and Stories
Last week, we looked at how Wakefield deals with snow. It’s a pretty uncomplicated process of plow, sand, salt, shovel and snowblowers. In Portland, things are a little bit more difficult. Portland is the urban center of Maine. Located on a peninsula at the mouth of...
by Rich Collins | Feb 20, 2015 | Interesting Facts and Stories
With the amount of snow we’ve received in the Northeast over the past month or so, it becomes difficult for us to remember what summer looked like. Chances are, there was a time just a few months ago when you were outside and you were uncomfortably warm. Remember...
by Rich Collins | Mar 28, 2014 | AWWA News, Water Quality
I’ve been unable to post a blog for our winter series, Exploring the Winter Rivers, for the past few weeks. This is primarily due to the flurry of winter trainings and conferences that AWWA’s been attending in order to keep up to date on the best...
by Rich Collins | Mar 7, 2014 | Interesting Facts and Stories
My second foray to one of the AWWA region’s frozen rivers brought me to the South River, which enters Province Lake almost exactly at the border between Parsonsfield, Maine and Wakefield, New Hampshire. I was excited to get out onto the South River, as it is the...
