The Three Rivers City
Franklin City Hall 316 Central Street, Franklin NH 03235 (603) 934-3900
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The Three Rivers City
Franklin City Hall 316 Central Street, Franklin NH 03235 (603) 934-3900 |
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The Conservation Commission meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month for their regular monthly meeting, in City Hall, 316 Central Street, Franklin NH 03235. The September 2011 meeting of the Conservation Commission is cancelled.
Please see the Codes page of the website, Chapter 11 of the Franklin City Code, for the regulations regarding the Conservation Commission.
PEMIGEWASSET RIVER LOCAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE PRLAC is one of 15 Local Advisory Committees working on designated rivers around the state. Our focus continues to be water quality in the Pemigewasset River. Bi-weekly monitoring from April to mid September continues to provide a strong (now 6 years) base of water quality data. This data is used to satisfy the state’s reporting requirements to the US Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Water Act. Although currently limited to 8 sites – Thornton through Bristol – our data should provide a signal for early signs of potential impairment. Spikes of E coli runoff pollution have been noted after significant rain events. A critical step in mitigating this runoff problem is the revised Comprehensive Shoreland Protection Act (RSA 483B) which protects the Pemi as of 7/1/08. CSPA includes improved buffer management and more attention to the potential impact of impervious surfaces resulting from development in the 250’ protected shoreland area. PRLAC is now asked to review and comment on all such development applications. For the first time in our history, PRLAC has been forced to ask Pemi corridor towns for a financial assistance in keeping our basic monitoring activity up and running. Historically we have been funded by NH’s Department of Environmental Services through the Lakes Region Planning Commission (LRPC). The state is no longer a reliable source of basic funding so we are asking each Pemi town to commit $200 annually to our program. Emphasis in 2009 will be on a) expanding water quality monitoring (E coli) if lab test costs can be funded, b) milfoil control, c) review of shoreland development permit applications and certain other applications with water quality implications (8 projects reviewed in 2008), d) following up on LRPC’s Co-Occurrence Mapping and Analysis project, identifying aquatic resource conservation opportunities that might attract state funds accumulating under the state’s Aquatic Resource Mitigation Fund (currently $80,000 available for the Pemi watershed).
We have representatives from all towns from Thornton through Bristol except for Ashland and Bridgewater. In October, the efforts of PRLAC and other Local Advisory Committees were recognized with the Volunteer NH! Champions Award. We meet the last Tuesday of most months on the campus of PSU. Call Max Stamp 744-8223 for details if you are interested in attending. Max Stamp, PRLAC Chair 12/6/08
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