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Clean Lakes Program

The Clean Lakes Program involves the diagnostic evaluation of water quality within a given watershed. Lakes and ponds in New Hampshire are recommended for the Clean Lakes Program if data from other monitoring programs, like the DES Lake Survey Program or the Volunteer Lake Assessment Program (VLAP), show signs of declining water quality over time. The New Hampshire Clean Lakes Program at the DES was established in 1990 and is governed by RSA Chapter 487, Section 487:15. At that time, the general court recognized that rapidly escalating pressures of shorefront development and recreational uses of public waters more...

Publications (Complete List)

• Kezar Lake, North Sutton, 2000 Diagnostic Study (10 mb)
• Mirror Lake, Tuftonboro, 2011, Internal Phosphorus Loading & Cyanobacteria Response
• Partridge Lake, Littleton, 2005 Diagnostic Study (9 mb)
• Pawtuckaway Lake, Nottingham, 1995 Diagnostic Study (14 mb)
• Pleasant Lake, Deerfield/Northwood, 2002 Diagnostic Study (5 mb)
• Rust Pond, Wolfeboro, 2007 Diagnostic Study (17 mb)
• Webster Lake, Franklin, 2010 Phosphorus and Cyanobacteria Study

Rules/Regulatory

• Chapter 487: Section 487:15

Education/Outreach

• Interactive Lake Ecology Curriculum

Related Programs

• Volunteer Lake Assessment Program
• Lakes Management and Protection
• Lake Assessment Water Quality Reports

Grants/Loans

• DES Grants and Loans

Contact Us

• Andy Chapman
  Clean Lakes Program Coordinator
  NH Department of Environmental Services
  29 Hazen Drive; PO Box 95
  Concord, NH 03302-0095
  (603) 271-5334
  (603) 271-7894 (fax)
  andrew.chapman@des.nh.gov

 

 

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