watershed Management Plan (WMP)

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The Department of Environmental Services awarded a $75,000 grant to Halfmoon Lake Association (HMLA) in September, 2023 to pursue a Watershed Management Plan .

What is a Watershed Management Plan? Watershed plans include regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to meet clean water and safe drinking water goals by identifying strategies to better protect rivers, lakes and other surface water. Development of the natural landscape can lead to increases in runoff that can carry oil, nutrients and metals into surface water. Watershed planning and protection of riparian buffers are important to maintain surface water quality.

HMLA awarded a contract to  FB Environmental (FB) on November 9, 2023 to develop our Watershed Management Plan. In partnership with FB, a kick-off meeting was held in December to include all pertinent parties from the towns of Alton and Barnstead who will participate throughout the project. In late April, FB conducted a preliminary site survey of the lake and watershed area, and  provided us with a Water Quality Analysis which we will make available for members to review below.

Further updates will be provided as they become available.