$500,000 Awarded from Aquatic Resource Mitigation (ARM) Fund to Restore and Conserve Wetlands in the Town of Londonderry

Concord, NH – The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) announced today that the Governor and Executive Council recently approved an Aquatic Resource Mitigation (ARM) Fund project in Londonderry for $500,000.  

The Lithia Springs project in Londonderry will protect high-value aquatic resources and their upland buffers. The town will use these grant funds to acquire and permanently protect 54 acres of habitat on Nesenkeag Brook in southwest Londonderry. The aquatic resources to be protected within the conservation easement includes 2,209 feet of stream frontage on the brook, as well as vernal pools and 18 acres of wetlands. Lithia Springs lies within the Pennichuck waterworks, which serves approximately 88,000 people. Wetland restoration will also be supported in the southwest corner of the property to reconnect wetland habitat. The conservation easement will be granted to the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.  

The ARM Fund Program manages mitigation payments for unavoidable impacts to aquatic resources. Competitive grants fund projects that restore, enhance, and preserve aquatic resources and associated upland buffers across nine watersheds, also called service areas. Over $35 million in compensatory funds have supported 141 projects, including irreplaceable-resource preservation, aquatic barrier removal (culvert replacement and dam removal), and living shoreline projects since New Hampshire’s ARM program began in 2006.  

For more information, visit the ARM Fund Program website or send an email to des.arm@des.nh.gov.

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