 Nashua Public Works employee Chris Nelson and a co-worker worked to repair a sewer cover that missing teen Jacob Goulet is thought to have fallen into in Nashua, N.H. 
 
 NASHUA — Authorities said Sunday they believed they had found the body of a missing teen floating in the Merrimack River, bringing a heartbreaking end to a days-long search for the Nashua High School North student who might have fallen into an open sewer. A Massachusetts State Police helicopter crew sighted a body floating near Parlee Farms in Tyngsborough at 11:38 a.m. Sunday, said David Procopio, a State Police spokesman. Friends, family, and teachers had held out hope through the weekend, but by Sunday afternoon, Nashua police had confirmed their worst fears. “The water flow was just, without being positive that someone was down there, was just absolutely unsafe.” 
 
 Nashua Public Works employees were at the scene Sunday attempting to secure the sewer, which was surrounded by six cones. Based on that description, Nashua police said the body appears to be Goulet, but police will not officially identify the body until the Massachusetts Medical Examiner’s Office makes a positive identification. On Friday, officers responded to a drain behind 75 Main St. and the north side of Water Street for a report that a person may have fallen down a storm drain. Several people were interviewed, but no one witnessed anyone falling through the hole," Nashua police Chief Andrew Lavoie said. Advertisement 
 
 No one saw him fall, but a caller reported Friday night that someone could have plunged into the sewer, after the caller found a baseball cap and an umbrella on the ground near the opening, Nashua police said. Based on information given by Goulet’s parents and surveillance footage, police said they had reason to believe that the items could belong to Goulet. The Nashua Fire Department and its dive team, the city of Nashua Waste Water Department, Division of Public Works, New Hampshire State Police, Massachusetts State Police and New Hampshire Fish and Game assisted with the effort. Donchess described the storm drain that Goulet may have fallen into as an "interceptor," which connects to the waste water treatment plant over "several miles" of pipeline. Donchess said that there is no direct flow to the Merrimack River from the drain in question, but that there is an overflow system in place where water could be discharged into the river during a storm. Nashua Mayor James Donchess said at a Sunday press conference that such covers don’t typically come off and that nothing like the incident had happened in the city before. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Jacob’s family, friends, classmates, [and] the entire Nashua community at the probable tragic loss of Jacob Goulet,” the department wrote on Twitter. Nashua High School North Principal Marianne Busteed said she was planning to meet with a crisis team Monday morning and prepare for the day and that grief counselors will be available for students. Little is known about what happened Friday night after Goulet left a friend’s house to walk home, but he was seen near the sewer in a surveillance video.
– Sad news out of Nashua, NH, after police say they believe a body found floating in a river is that of a high school student who likely plunged 20 feet into an open sewer. Jacob Goulet, 16, was last seen Friday night after he left a friend's house during a torrential rainstorm, WMUR reports. His family reported him missing Saturday morning. A Massachusetts State Police helicopter spotted a body floating in the Merrimack River in neighboring Tyngsboro on Sunday morning. A positive ID is pending, but cops said they believe the body is Jacob's. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Jacob’s family, friends, classmates," Nashua Police wrote on Twitter. Cops were investigating why the sewer cover was open. They described a steep drop into a storm drain that links to a water treatment plant. During heavy rains an overflow system discharges water directly into the river. A frantic search began Saturday morning after a passerby spotted the open sewer and beside it a baseball cap and umbrella believed to be Jacob's. Surveillance video confirmed the teen was in the area, WMUR reports. Jacob's family searched storm drains across the city, hoping perhaps he was trapped inside one and would hear their shouts. "Maybe he might have fallen in and he’s just hanging on, and maybe he’s too cold to yell," his uncle, Darren Blouin, told WMUR. Devastated family and friends recalled Jacob, who recently turned 16, as a good kid who avoided trouble and liked video games. "Jacob is a sweet boy with a great heart,” family friend Lauren Comeau told the Boston Globe. "He is his father Billy’s whole world." (A freak hammock accident killed this teen.)