Title L, Water Management and Protection

If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or application, and to this end the p…

In this chapter: I. "Alliance" means the Southeast Watershed Alliance. II. "Associated waters" means freshwater surface waters and groundwater located in the coastal watershed, which contribute flows downstream to the state's coastal water resources. III. "Coastal watershed" mean…

There is hereby established a public body corporate and politic having a distinct legal existence separate from the state and not constituting a department or agency of the state government to be known as the Southeast Watershed Alliance, also known as the Alliance. The Alliance …

The Alliance shall include an advisory committee consisting of the commissioner of the department, or designee, the commissioner of the department of transportation, or designee, the Strafford, Rockingham, and southern New Hampshire regional planning commission executive director…

I. The department shall, no later than October 1, 2009: (a) Notify the governing bodies, planning boards, conservation commissions, and public works departments of each municipality in the coastal watershed, and the applicable regional planning commissions, of the establishment o…

Any Alliance municipality may elect to participate or subsequently to withdraw from participation in the Alliance by vote of its governing body.

I. The Southeast Watershed Alliance may engage in: (a) Intermunicipal and regional planning, coordination, and public education. (b) Intermunicipal implementation measures, including but not limited to, intermunicipal investments and the establishment of intermunicipal agreements…

The Alliance shall not construct a regional outfall that transfers water out of the Great Bay estuary watershed directly into the Gulf of Maine absent legislation specifically authorizing it to do so.