PSNH Shoreline Management Plan

PSNH is developing a Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) in order to comply with requirements imposed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission when it issued PSNH a license for the company's Merrimack River Project, which is primarly the three hydroelectric power facilities in Manchester, Hooksett and Bow, NH.

This page will be updated as the Shoreline Management Plan develops.

• Shoreline Management Plan - May 2009 5.09MB
• Shoreline Management Plan (without appendices) - May 2009 160KB

Shoreline Management Classification Maps

• Extent 1 – Upstream extent of Garvins Falls impoundment (Concord) 219KB
• Extent 2 – Garvins Falls impoundment near I-93 and I-393 (Concord) 267KB
• Extent 3 – Garvins Falls impoundment near I-93 and I-89 (Concord & Bow) 260KB
• Extent 4 – Garvins Falls dam, tailwater and upstream extent of Hooksett impoundment (Bow & Pembroke) 248KB
• Extent 5 – Hooksett impoundment (Pembroke, Allenstown, Bow & Hooksett) 253KB
• Extent 6 – Hooksett Dam, tailwater and upstream extent of Amoskeag impoundment (Bow & Hooksett) 237KB
• Extent 7 – Amoskeag impoundment near I-93 and I-293 (Hooksett) 243KB
• Extent 8 – Amoskeag impoundment, dam, and tailwater (Hooksett & Manchester) 271KB
  

Additional Information

To learn more about PSNH's Shoreline Management Plan, please browse through the following documents:

• Notice of Public Meeting re: SMP 128KB
• PSNH Presentation given at Public Meeting 1.17MB
• FERC Guidebook to developing an SMP 1.79MB
• Request for Extension - PSNH letter to FERC, Apr. 7, 2008 36KB
• Extension granted by FERC - new deadline: Nov. 19, 2008
• Final SMP filing - PSNH letter to FERC, May 18, 2009 122KB

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