Cyanobacteria - State Plan
 

In 2022, the New Hampshire Legislature mandated the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services to prepare a statewide strategy to address increasing blooms of toxic cyanobacteria in our waters. The plan has just been published.

https://www.des.nh.gov/sites/g/files...r-wd-23-12.pdf

I knew about the advisory committee.
We do a lot of advisory committees.

Who is “we”….just curious.

Thanks!

Dan

NH.
We the People are supposedly controlling the Legislature.

The most common action for anything seems to be another study with an attached advisory committee.

I agree. It seems towns and cities as well as the state spend more on studies and advisory committees than on a solution.

Thanks for the link! NH's Cyanobacteria Plan is eighty-nine pages and looks comprehensive. I look forward to reading it. My first take is, I like the index. It lists four strategies that make sense.

1) Prevention through Policies: It emphasizes the development of best practices and policies to address the core issues.
2) Education and Outreach: The report advocates for programs that teach recognition, reporting, and understanding of prevention strategies.
3) Monitoring and Reporting: By collecting data, this strategy aims to help researchers develop insight and alert people where cyanobacteria is found.
4) Protecting Drinking Water: Linking prevention, education and monitoring treatment protocols to ensure our water's safety.

At first glance, this plan should bring the state closer to a solution. It is possible our lakes have passed a tipping point and the discussion has moved from "this is what could happen" to "there it is". Prevention, education and reporting activity is already in place and there are increasing blooms to exercise and improve the processes. Getting new regulations right and accepted is always a challenge, but the realtors and developers seem to be more on board with additional regulations this time.

A developer expects to build a septic system up to code or attached to a public service (more often). Even a smaller builder working on a new private home would expect they would have to do that.

The realtors are either selling newly built product (existing is harder to come by each day), or expect that the mortgage company/buyer inspection would take care of it. Most realtors suggest inspections, but leave it up to the buyer to contract it as a contingency.

So they have never been opposed to working septic systems.