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NH Department of Environmental Services

Wetlands Bureau
The mission of the Wetlands Bureau is to protect, maintain and enhance the environmental quality in New Hampshire through the powers set forth in RSA 482-A to regulate impacts to those areas "wherever the tide ebbs and flows" or "freshwater flows or stands."

What's New?
 * Fetch; Dock Design; Aquatic Exotic Plant Control (and related definitions)

 * Vernal Pool definitions and rules have been adopted-see the adopted text at www.des.nh.gov/RuleMaking/index.html#awetlands

 * Flooding Announcement

Obtaining Authorization for Emergency Wetlands Impacts

 * RFP: Developing a Watershed Strategy for the Restoration and Protection of Wetlands in the Merrimack River Watershed

 * Appendix B - Corps Secondary Impacts Checklist (now required for inland wetland/waterway fill projects in New Hampshire)

 * PUBLIC NOTICE Stream Rule Workgroup Formation

About NH Wetlands...
* Application Decision Report
* Application Files Received
* Current Policies
* Fact Sheets
* Forms and Applications
* Helpful Documents
* Links to Related Sites
* NHDES Shoreland Protection Program
* RSA/Administrative Rules
* Wetlands Studies

Land Resource Management Shoreland Workshop

More Information...
* DES Enforcement Actions
* Guidebook for Wetlands Permits
* Lists of Certified Wetland and Soil Scientists
* Off-road Vehicles and Wetlands [PDF]
* Prime Wetlands
* US Army Corps of Engineers - NH Programmatic General Permit

PO Box 95
Concord NH 03302
(603) 271-2147
wetmail@des.state.nh.us


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Updated: May 2008
 
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