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NH Rev Stat § 485-C:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-C - Groundwater Protection Act|Section 485-C:16 - Cease and Desist Orders.

    485-C:16 Cease and Desist Orders. –||I. The department may issue a written cease and desist order against any violation of this chapter or rule adopted under this chapter. Local health officers shall have concurrent power to issue such orders. Such orders shall set out the specific acts which are alleged to be in violation, and the specific activities which are to be enjoined. Such orders shall be effective immediately. Health officers shall provide copies of such orders to the commissioner upon issuance. The commissioner may take whatever action is deemed necessary to ensure uniform state enforcement. Any person to whom an order is issued by a local health officer may, within 15 days, request review of the order by the department. The department shall review the order within 15 days of receipt of the request for review. If the department fails to act on the request for review, the order shall no longer be in effect. If the department finds the order to have insufficient basis or to be no longer necessary, it shall state that fact in writing, and the order shall no longer be in effect.||II. A written cease and desist order issued by the department under paragraph I may be recorded by the department in the registry of deeds for the county in which the property is situated and, on recordation, such order shall run with the land; provided, however, that an appropriate description of the land involved, including the accurate name of the record owner, shall be incorporated in the cease and desist order. No fee shall be charged for recording such an administrative order; however, the fee for discharge of any such order shall be the same as for the discharge of a lien on real property.||III. No fine or penalty shall be imposed for failure to comply with an order if such failure did not otherwise result in a violation of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter.|||Source. 1991, 344:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-C:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-C - Groundwater Protection Act|Section 485-C:17 - Appeals.

    485-C:17 Appeals. –||Actions of the department under RSA 485-C:16 may be appealed in accordance with RSA 21-O:14.|||Source. 1991, 344:1. 1996, 228:90, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-C:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-C - Groundwater Protection Act|Section 485-C:18 - Administrative Fines.

    485-C:18 Administrative Fines. –||The commissioner, after notice and hearing pursuant to RSA 541-A, may impose an administrative fine not to exceed $4,000 for each offense upon any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any rule, permit or order adopted or issued under this chapter. Each day of violation shall constitute a separate offense. Rehearings and appeals from a decision of the commissioner under this section shall be in accordance with RSA 541. Any administrative fine imposed under this section shall not preclude the imposition of further penalties under this chapter. The commissioner shall adopt rules, under RSA 541-A, relative to:||I. A schedule of administrative fines which may be imposed under this section for violation of this chapter.||II. Procedures for notice and hearing prior to the imposition of an administrative fine.|||Source. 1991, 344:1, eff. July 1, 1993. 2019, 263:8, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-C:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-C - Groundwater Protection Act|Section 485-C:19 - Penalties and Other Relief.

    485-C:19 Penalties and Other Relief. –||I. Any person who knowingly violates this chapter, or any rule, permit, or order adopted or issued under this chapter; or who knowingly or recklessly makes any material false statement in any document required to be filed or maintained pursuant to this chapter; or who knowingly or recklessly renders inaccurate, falsifies, or tampers with any monitoring device or method required under this chapter; or who knowingly fails, neglects, or refuses to obey any lawful order of the department, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, and a felony if any other person. Such person shall also be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $50,000 for each violation or for each day of a continuing violation.||II. Any person who violates this chapter or a rule, permit, or order adopted or issued under this chapter, shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $20,000 for each violation or for each day of a continuing violation. Such violation may also be enjoined by the superior court upon application of the attorney general.|||Source. 1991, 344:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996; 266:5, eff. Aug. 9, 1996. 2019, 263:8, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-C:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-C - Groundwater Protection Act|Section 485-C:20 - Effect on Local Ordinances.

    485-C:20 Effect on Local Ordinances. –||I. Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to preempt the authority of municipalities, under other statutes, to enact local ordinances or regulations affecting groundwater, other than groundwater withdrawals; provided, however, that requirements imposed under this chapter shall be considered as minimum.||II. No regulatory decision made by the department shall abrogate or affect any applicant's obligation to comply with or obtain all applicable and lawful local ordinances, codes, regulations, and approvals not otherwise prohibited by this chapter.|||Source. 1991, 344:1. 1998, 124:6. 2010, 348:2, eff. Sept. 18, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-C:21-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-C - Groundwater Protection Act|Section 485-C:21-a - Conservation Management Plan Not Required.

    485-C:21-a Conservation Management Plan Not Required. –||The department may grant a renewable exemption from the rules for water conservation practices under RSA 485:61 to any municipality with a water balance of less than 15 percent. The municipality shall calculate the water balance each calendar year after the well is permitted, and such balance and all components defined in the balance shall be submitted to the department no later than the first day of March following the year to which the water balance pertains. The department shall not grant an exemption to any municipality that fails to submit a water balance of less than 15 percent by such date.|||Source. 2014, 304:3, eff. Sept. 30, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-C:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-C - Groundwater Protection Act|Section 485-C:23 - Temporary Exemptions for Large Groundwater Withdrawals Required for Emergency Purposes.

    485-C:23 Temporary Exemptions for Large Groundwater Withdrawals Required for Emergency Purposes. –||I. The department may approve a new large groundwater withdrawal without compliance with RSA 485-C:14, RSA 485-C:21, or RSA 485-C:22 to protect human health and the environment in the event that circumstances beyond the control of the person requesting the withdrawal occurs, such as fire, flood, drought, other acts of God, or infrastructure failure.||II. A large groundwater withdrawal approved for emergency purposes under paragraph I shall only be allowed to operate for 2 years unless it is approved by the department in accordance with RSA 485-C:21.||III. No withdrawal that the department approves in accordance with paragraph I shall result in an unmitigated impact as described in RSA 485-C:21, V-c. The department shall require that monitoring and mitigation plans be implemented when necessary to identify and mitigate the occurrence of such impacts.||IV. Any party may appeal from the decision of the department to approve a withdrawal in accordance with paragraph I to the superior court of the county in which the large groundwater withdrawal is to be made to determine the validity and the reasonableness of the department's action. The appeal shall be filed within 60 days after the approval of the department.|||Source. 2010, 348:5, eff. Sept. 18, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-C:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-C - Groundwater Protection Act|Section 485-C:24 - Short-Term Use Groundwater Withdrawals.

    485-C:24 Short-Term Use Groundwater Withdrawals. –||The department shall require a short-term use, large groundwater withdrawal to cease and desist if such withdrawal causes unmitigated impacts as described in RSA 485-A:21, V-c.|||Source. 2010, 348:5, eff. Sept. 18, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-C:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-C - Groundwater Protection Act|Section 485-C:25 - Exemption for Certain Large Groundwater Withdrawals Associated With Geothermal Processes.

    485-C:25 Exemption for Certain Large Groundwater Withdrawals Associated With Geothermal Processes. –||A geothermal system as defined by RSA 485:1-a, I-b and RSA 485:1-a, XI-a shall not be considered a large groundwater withdrawal if the volume of groundwater extracted minus the volume of water returned to the same aquifer does not exceed 57,600 gallons over any 24-hour period.|||Source. 2010, 348:5, eff. Sept. 18, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-C:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-C - Groundwater Protection Act|Section 485-C:26 - Groundwater Withdrawals Less than 57,600 Gallons Over Any 24-Hour Period for Community Water Systems.

    485-C:26 Groundwater Withdrawals Less than 57,600 Gallons Over Any 24-Hour Period for Community Water Systems. –||The department shall adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A specifying criteria and procedures to ensure a groundwater withdrawal less than 57,600 gallons over any 24-hour period from a new source of water for a community water system as defined by RSA 485:1-a and subject to RSA 485:8 does not cause an unmitigated impact to an existing private water supply well in accordance with RSA 485-C:21, V-c(a) or RSA 485-C:21, V-c(c).|||Source. 2021, 208:2, Pt. VII, Sec. 1, eff. Oct. 9, 2021; 222:1, eff. Oct. 23, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-E:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-E - Southeast Watershed Alliance|Section 485-E:1 - Findings and Purpose.

    485-E:1 Findings and Purpose. –||I. New Hampshire's coastal water resources have significant ecological, commercial, cultural, and recreational values for the state and its citizens. The state's coastal water resources are highly sensitive and are subject to intense and increasing pressures associated with population growth and development, including increased pollution loads from many sources, including wastewater treatment facilities, stormwater runoff, septic systems, and land use practices. Excess levels of nutrients are of particular concern, have become a significant problem in the Great Bay estuary, and are likely to result in more stringent water quality requirements that could affect activities occurring in municipalities throughout the coastal watershed. In order to improve and protect water quality and meet state and federal regulations, it is necessary for municipalities to reduce nutrient pollution loads from wastewater treatment facilities, stormwater runoff, septic systems and septage, and land use practices. It is essential that the state, and municipalities located within the state's coastal watershed, work in a coordinated way to address these problems and protect the health and sustainability of New Hampshire's coastal resources.||II. The purposes of this chapter are to:||(a) Create better municipal, intermunicipal, and regional planning and coordination relative to wastewater and stormwater management, water quality and water supply planning, and land use;||(b) Establish a regional framework for coastal watershed communities, regional planning commissions, the state, and other stakeholders to collaborate on planning and implementation measures to improve and protect water quality and more effectively address the challenges of meeting clean water standards, particularly with respect to nutrients pollution;||(c) Encourage coastal watershed municipalities, the state, and other stakeholders, individually and in collaboration with one another, to plan, implement, and invest in wastewater, stormwater, and land use planning and management approaches that protect the water quality, natural hydrology, and habitats of the state's coastal resources and associated waters and that advance the state's economic growth, resource protection, and planning policy, established in RSA 9-B; and||(d) Seek innovative solutions to reducing pollution and enhancing water quality.|||Source. 2004, 258:1. 2009, 220:1, eff. July 15, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-E:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-E - Southeast Watershed Alliance|Section 485-E:2 - Definitions.

    485-E:2 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Alliance" means the Southeast Watershed Alliance.||II. "Associated waters" means freshwater surface waters and groundwater located in the coastal watershed, which contribute flows downstream to the state's coastal water resources.||III. "Coastal watershed" means the land area in New Hampshire contributing groundwater, surface water, and stormwater to the state's coastal water resources and associated waters. The coastal watershed consists all or portions of the following municipalities: Barrington; Brentwood; Brookfield; Candia; Chester; Danville; Deerfield; Dover; Durham; East Kingston; Epping; Exeter; Farmington; Fremont; Greenland; Hampton; Hampton Falls; Kensington; Kingston; Lee; Madbury; Middleton; Milton; New Castle; New Durham; Newfields; Newington; Newmarket; Nottingham; North Hampton; Northwood; Portsmouth; Raymond; Rochester; Rollinsford; Rye; Sandown; Seabrook; Somersworth; Strafford; Stratham; and Wakefield.||IV. "Coastal water resources" means the Gulf of Maine and associated coastal embayments on the Atlantic coast of New Hampshire, and the Great Bay estuary.||V. "Department" means the department of environmental services.||VI. "Great Bay estuary" means the Piscataqua River, Great Bay and Little Bay, all tidal portions of the Bellamy, Cocheco, Lamprey, Oyster, Salmon Falls, Squamscott, and Winnicut Rivers, and the tidal portion of all minor tributaries to the Piscataqua River Great Bay, or Little Bay.||VII. "Low impact development" means development that incorporates best management practices to reduce impervious surfaces, preserve natural hydrology, and reduce stormwater volumes and pollution. Low impact development practices include, but are not limited to, project designs that reduce the amount of impervious cover, porous pavements, gravel wetlands, and green rooftops.||VIII. "Municipalities" means cities, towns, and village districts.||IX. "State's economic growth, resource protection, and planning policy" means the policy established pursuant to RSA 9-B.||X. "Stormwater utility" means a special assessment district established to generate funding specifically for stormwater management, under RSA 149-I:6-a.|||Source. 2004, 258:1. 2009, 220:1, eff. July 15, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-E:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-E - Southeast Watershed Alliance|Section 485-E:3 - Southeast Watershed Alliance.

    485-E:3 Southeast Watershed Alliance. –||There is hereby established a public body corporate and politic having a distinct legal existence separate from the state and not constituting a department or agency of the state government to be known as the Southeast Watershed Alliance, also known as the Alliance. The Alliance shall include those municipalities in New Hampshire whose boundaries include a portion of the coastal watershed and who have agreed to participate the Alliance. The public purpose of the Alliance is:||I. To engage in improved municipal, intermunicipal, and regional planning, studies, public education, and implementation measures, including potential investments, relative to water quality, water supply, wastewater and stormwater management, septic systems and septage, and land use, for the purpose of improving and protecting the water quality and natural hydrology of the state's coastal water resources and associated waters, and to more effectively address on a watershed basis the challenges of meeting state and federal regulations, including waste load limits and allocations. Such planning and investments may include, but are not limited to:||(a) Establishing intermunicipal stormwater utilities and any associated facilities.||(b) Establishing intermunicipal or regional wastewater districts and facilities.||(c) Establishing and coordinating common municipal regulations for nutrient reduction and water quality protection, such as stormwater, wetlands, and buffer regulations.||(d) Developing and implementing, in coordination with the department, innovative means to achieve compliance with nutrient and other pollutant reductions, such as a nutrients offset or trading program.||(e) Addressing water supply and water conservation measures.||II. To foster improved municipal and intermunicipal land use planning and regulation, in coordination with the applicable regional planning commissions, such as to encourage low impact development and innovative zoning and land use management approaches, and to advance the state's economic growth, resource protection, and planning policy.|||Source. 2004, 258:1. 2009, 220:1, eff. July 15, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-E:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-E - Southeast Watershed Alliance|Section 485-E:4 - Advisory Committee.

    485-E:4 Advisory Committee. –||The Alliance shall include an advisory committee consisting of the commissioner of the department, or designee, the commissioner of the department of transportation, or designee, the Strafford, Rockingham, and southern New Hampshire regional planning commission executive directors, or designees, and the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership director, or designee. The committee shall provide technical assistance, education, scientific advice, and consultation on whether plans advance the state's economic growth, resource protection, and planning policy, and otherwise share expertise and provide resources to assist the Alliance, in accordance with available resources. Members of the advisory committee shall be nonvoting members of the Alliance. The Alliance may add members to the advisory committee as it determines its needs for expertise.|||Source. 2009, 220:1, eff. July 15, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-E:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-E - Southeast Watershed Alliance|Section 485-E:5 - Duties of the Department.

    485-E:5 Duties of the Department. –||I. The department shall, no later than October 1, 2009:||(a) Notify the governing bodies, planning boards, conservation commissions, and public works departments of each municipality in the coastal watershed, and the applicable regional planning commissions, of the establishment of the Southeast Watershed Alliance and of the need and purpose of the Alliance, and solicit their participation;||(b) Convene an organizing meeting or meetings, at which the department shall describe the purpose of this chapter, the challenges facing the Great Bay estuary and coastal resources, the potential scope of the Alliance's activities, and the method prescribed by this chapter for coastal watershed municipalities to join the Alliance; and||(c) Provide technical and logistical assistance, as resources allow, to the Alliance until such time as it is self-supporting.||II. The department shall, no later than January 1, 2010, hold a meeting of all coastal watershed municipalities that have joined the Alliance to elect a chairperson of the Alliance and to begin the process of developing the Alliance's operating procedures and organizational structure.|||Source. 2004, 258:1. 2009, 220:1, eff. July 15, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-E:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-E - Southeast Watershed Alliance|Section 485-E:6 - Method of Joining Southeast Watershed Alliance.

    485-E:6 Method of Joining Southeast Watershed Alliance. –||Any Alliance municipality may elect to participate or subsequently to withdraw from participation in the Alliance by vote of its governing body.|||Source. 2009, 220:1, eff. July 15, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-E:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-E - Southeast Watershed Alliance|Section 485-E:8 - Repealed by 2017, 195:19, eff. Sept. 3, 2017.

    485-E:8 Repealed by 2017, 195:19, eff. Sept. 3, 2017. –|
NH Rev Stat § 485-E:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-E - Southeast Watershed Alliance|Section 485-E:9 - Regional Outfall Construction; Prohibition.

    485-E:9 Regional Outfall Construction;  Prohibition. –||The Alliance shall not construct a regional outfall that transfers water out of the Great Bay estuary watershed directly into the Gulf of Maine absent legislation specifically authorizing it to do so.|||Source. 2009, 220:1, eff. July 15, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-E:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-E - Southeast Watershed Alliance|Section 485-E:10 - Exemption From Taxes.

    485-E:10 Exemption From Taxes. –||Any property of the Alliance acquired and used to further the public purpose of planning, developing, and implementing wastewater and stormwater management and other water quality management solutions that protect the water quality and natural hydrology of the state's coastal resources and associated waters, is hereby declared to be public property and shall be exempt from all taxes and special assessments of the state or any of its subdivisions. No taxes or assessments shall be imposed upon the activities of the Alliance or upon any of its revenues.|||Source. 2009, 220:1, eff. July 15, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-E:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-E - Southeast Watershed Alliance|Section 485-E:11 - Exemption From Regulation.

    485-E:11 Exemption From Regulation. –||The New Hampshire public utilities commission shall regulate the Alliance only with regard to insurance and safety requirements.|||Source. 2009, 220:1, eff. July 15, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-E:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-E - Southeast Watershed Alliance|Section 485-E:12 - Report.

    485-E:12 Report. –||The Alliance shall, no later than November 1 each year, provide to the senate president, the speaker of the house of representatives, the senate energy, environment and economic development committee, and the house resources, recreation and development committee, a report on the Alliance's work and progress in carrying out the purposes of this chapter, and on recommendations for further legislation.|||Source. 2009, 220:1, eff. July 15, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-E:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-E - Southeast Watershed Alliance|Section 485-E:13 - Severability.

    485-E:13 Severability. –||If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.|||Source. 2004, 258:1. 2009, 220:1, eff. July 15, 2009.|