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The Shoreland Protection Act Gets a Makeover
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  Since 1994, the Shoreland Protection Act has helped keep lakes and rivers clean by requiring waterfront landowners to keep some trees and plants on their properties and put limits on pavement and where contractors can build. Now even tougher regulations take effect July 1st. We’ll look at these changes and what they'll mean for waterfront communities. Guests
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As a practicing wetland scientist I frequently deal with Shoreland Protection issues. I am not sure why the policy makers did not take into account thinning work already completed on properties when applying the new thinning guidelines. I have witnessed where the new reforms are being used as a loop hole to rethin/retreat areas previously thinned.
Concord Hydro Associates, owners and operators of the hydro plant in Penacook, referred to by an earlier caller, takes great care and pride in the maintenance of river elevations. Whenever river flows are equal to or less than the hydraulic capacity of our facility at the York Dam, in Penacook, river elevation is maintain to within one tenth of a foot. We do not cause variations in river level elevations.
You can reach me at our Penacook office today: 603-753-6166.
Tom Tarpey
Executive Vice President