These include the Blackwater Dam in Webster, opened in 1941, which can hold back floodwaters that extend seven miles upstream, covering 3,500 acres, and the huge Hopkinton-Everett system ...

The open house for Hopkinton-Everett Dam will be from 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8, at the Slusser Center, 41 Houston Drive, Contoocook. The open house for Franklin Falls Dam is set for from 4 ...

The Hopkinton-Everett Lakes Flood Risk Management System in Contoocook, New Hampshire is a two dam system completed in 1962 for the protection of the citizens of Merrimack Valley. To date the two ...

The Hopkinton Dam was completed in 1963 ... Corps saw an event like this was in 2011 with Hurricane Irene. The Everett Dam was completed in 1962. This time, he said, they’re unsure when ...

SHOULD THERE BE A FLOOD, THE DAM WILL CLOSE AND THE WATER WILL BACKUP, BUT IT WILL BE DIRECTED DOWN A TWO MILE LONG CANAL. EVENTUALLY IT GOES TO A SECOND CANAL AND IT ENDS UP IN LAKE EVERETT ...

An ongoing struggle with a beaver dam in Hopkinton will land in the state legislature this session. Hopkinton select board chair Jim O'Brien says the town has been trying for more than a year to ...

HOPKINTON — An old postcard depicts a narrow, winding road that walkers once took across a rustic bridge and an earthen dam to swim and enjoy the outdoors at the southern tip of Blue Pond.

HOPKINTON — At about 5 p.m. on March 30, 2010, as record rainfall pounded Rhode Island, Blue Pond Dam collapsed, releasing 179 million gallons of water that raced through nearby woods before ...