This information comes from the Connecticut River Watershed Council. Friday, Oct. 10, was a very good day for the Ashuelot River. In Surry, N.H., as part of the Annual Source to the Sea River Cleanup, a volunteer crew from Cold River Materials took a washed out bridge from the Ashuelot River at the site of a local swimming area known to some as “The Current.” The Cold River crew pulled the 110 foot long steel bridge from the east shore of the river, cut it up into 10 foot section with acetylene torches on a large shoreside outcropping of bedrock, loaded the cut up sections into construction trucks and hauled it away. The crew on the site were Fred Aldrich Plant Manager at Cold River Materials, Bill Hubbard, Gary Patch, Scott Kendall all of Cold River Materials and Dave Brooks owner of Brooks Construction. Cold River Material trucks took the metal taken away to a scrap metal dealer. All proceeds from the sale of the scrap metal were donated to the Fall Mountain Food Shelf. “A good project with a great outcome for our Ashuelot River,” plant manager Fred Aldrich told the press. “This is the second time Lane Construction (Cold River Materials is a division of Lane Construction) has helped a tributary to the Connecticut River,” said river steward David Deen. “Last year the Lane crew from Massachusetts pulled a bridge out of the Green River in Vermont. It was smaller than this one but no less challenging.” “The upshot of the whole day was that as the work finished, a young woman came fishing down the stream and caught a fish right in the area where we had been working,” said Fred Aldrich. “Seeing her catch fish reminded us of what the work was all about.”
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:34:47 +0000
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