From right: NRCS engineer Todd Guerdat explains the streambank restoration project along the Rocky Branch River to Becky Ross, NRCS state conservationist on July 27 as Josh McAllister, HEB civil engineer, looks on. (JEREMY J. FOWLER PHOTO)
A view from the River Street bridge of the Saco River in Bartlett on July 27 shows the far bank (left) that was repaired under the Emergency Watershed Protection Program funded by the USDA’s NRCS in response to the sever bank erosion that took place after the Halloween storm of 2017. (JEREMY J. FOWLER PHOTO)
From right: NRCS engineer Todd Guerdat explains the streambank restoration project along the Rocky Branch River to Becky Ross, NRCS state conservationist on July 27 as Josh McAllister, HEB civil engineer, looks on. (JEREMY J. FOWLER PHOTO)
A view from the River Street bridge of the Saco River in Bartlett on July 27 shows the far bank (left) that was repaired under the Emergency Watershed Protection Program funded by the USDA’s NRCS in response to the sever bank erosion that took place after the Halloween storm of 2017. (JEREMY J. FOWLER PHOTO)
BARTLETT — The New Hampshire state conservationist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service toured two sites in the Saco River watershed July 27 to review the effectiveness of the projects that received funding under the Emergency Watershed Protection Program.
State Conservationist Becky Ross, agency leader for NRCS in the state, met with stakeholders and program partners to review the sites in Bartlett that were approved for funding and subsequent bank reconstruction.
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