An out-of-town developer has come up with an out-of-place plan, Monitor Way, to put 900+ living units as well as many stores bordering the Merrimack River in Penacook. It would begin at the Wheelabrator plant and end at the Monitor building on Sewalls Falls Road. Apartments etc. and stores would be about 50 feet from the river’s edge. The forests would be destroyed and wildlife would be on the run. This is a terrible place to put more housing. This is totally against the Concord Conservation Commission goal which is “to develop a coherent interconnected system of permanently protected open spaces.” The Merrimack River Corridor, one of those systems, runs from Canterbury and Boscawen town line on the north to the Bow town line.

Aside from the destruction of a beautiful forest and wildlife habitat along the river, an impossible traffic situation would emerge.

At present, at one end, the Market Basket store is already crowded from locals and more so from those from Boscawen, Salisbury and other towns exiting I-93 or traveling from route 3. Add another 1,800 cars from a proposed develment. In addition to traveling north, those going south on Monitor Way would exit on to Sewalls Falls Road, Mountain Road in East Concord, Manor Road etc. in Penacook. These areas would see a disruption of their lives. Wrong, wrong, wrong! “Speak now or forever hold your peace.” You could attend a meeting of the Concord Conservation Commission on April 10 at 7 p.m. (Green Street).

Carol Breault

Penacook