In the piece you just heard, Walpole Representative Sheldon Sawyer said state regulations don't allow people to clean out their brooks and streams.
And that debris, he says, clogged culverts and waterways and caused last weeks flooding.
But at the Department of Environmental Services, Rene Pelletier doesn't see it that way.
Pelletier is the Deputy Director of the Water Division.
He tells NHPR's Mark Bevis that the Department of Transportation is reponsible for keeping the culverts clean
