Events & Notices
The long-awaited USGS Seacoast water use report is now available on-line: http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5157/
The New Hampshire Seacoast Region Wastewater Management Feasibility Study has reduced the number of regional wastewater management alternatives being considered for future study from ten to four. The study team presented ten alternatives for consideration in February, and has narrowed the number of possible alternatives as part of the effort to identify preferred regional alternatives for future consideration. Complete Information.
The CICEET-sponsored University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center has published its first year of field data. The 2005 Data Report evaluates the effectiveness of 12 stormwater treatments in protecting water quality and reducing runoff. You can browse the report online: http://ciceet.unh.edu/news/releases/stormwater_report_05/
More information about this report and the Center.
EPA has released the following four new smart growth publications:
Read complete press release with content summaries and links to the EPA web site.
Announcing a great new web site resource.The Active Living Network is a gateway to tools and resources for promoting active living and healthy community design. The network conects people working on local, regional and national effort to design and build vibrant, healthy communities. It is a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. [http://www.activeliving.org]
From the Nov. 3, 2005 letter from Cynthia Copeland, Exec. Director, SRPC:
We need your local knowledge and expertise! The Strafford Regional Planning Commission is working within a collaborative partnership with The Nature Conservancy, Society for the Protection of NH Forests, and Rockingham Planning Commission to prepare a coastal watershed land conservation plan.
Staff from The Nature Conservancy came to our office in Dover and reviewed community Master Plan documents looking for policies and priorities on land use, open space, recreation, and natural resources. The goal was to find general and specific land protection priorities.
We have briefly reviewed the information that was collected and would like to ensure that the data used in this plan is the most current for your community or organization.
Would you kindly review the matrix for your town (group), and make any corrections needed to the matrix? The matrix will be available for your use on our website at www.strafford.org. (Download matrix here) Please return to our office via email or mail by November 30, 2005. Thank you for your support.
If you have any questions, please contact Dale Abbott at dabbot@strafford.org regarding GIS and data related issues, and Cynthia Copeland at cjc@strafford.org regarding master plan policies and priorities or the overall status of the project.
Download the sample matrix to give us your updated priorities [ 66k PDF format].
September 2006
November 18, 2005
Presentation by Cynthia Copeland on the importance of planning in managing growth. Download for viewing in .mov format (PowerPoint's movie setting, visible within Quicktime and within PowerPoint) [ Download file Growth_Management.mov 2.4MB]