Piscataqua River advisory committee urges state review after businesses dump fluids near Bass Island

Jane Golure, chair of the Piscataqua River Local Advisory Committee, told the Manchester Conservation Commission that businesses along the Bass Island stretch of the Piscataqua River are discharging fluids and other material into the river and urged the commission to press state environmental regulators to investigate.

"Piscataqua River is a protected river, a designated protected river through the state," Golure said, describing years of work by local volunteers and college groups to clean the river and map problem areas. She repeated concerns that an auto‑repair business on Cleveland and South Main Street appears to allow fluids to run into the river and that a nearby salvage yard stores roughly 50 cars on an unpaved lot, sending storm runoff into the water.

The request matters because the committee says local zoning and long‑standing commercial uses have left potentially polluting…