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Water model study hits wake

NEWMARKET — A proposed water model study aimed at further examining issues that may be affecting the health of the Great Bay estuary has hit turbulence but isn't dead.

The plan was for the communities of Exeter, Durham, Newmarket, Portsmouth, Dover and Rochester to join the N.H. Department of Environmental Services to construct a calibrated computer model of the Squamscott River, in order to examine other factors that may be affecting the health of the estuary beyond nitrogen discharged from wastewater treatment plants.

The estimated $600,000 cost of the study was to be split among the six communities, but that plan hit a snag on Aug. 3 when the Newmarket Town Council voted not to participate in the study.

However, that vote isn't final, according to Town Administrator Ed Wojnowski.

Wojnowski said the motion to support the water model failed by a vote of 3-3. The council was down a member because Councilor Philip Nazzaro was away on business.

In the day following the meeting Wojnowski spoke with Council Chairman Michael LaBranche and the pair decided to put the issue back on the agenda for the council's Aug. 17 meeting in order to give the full council an opportunity to vote.

"Our goal is to participate in the process," Wojnowski said. "It's one of those situations where if we don't, we're putting the town in a position to go to a nitrogen level of 3 milligrams per liter and spending $18 million on a new wastewater treatment plant."

During the Aug. 3 meeting, LaBranche and councilors Eric Botterman and John Bentley supported the water model while councilors James Bergeron, Al Zink and Gary Levy voted against it.

Having not been a part of the discussion during the Aug. 3 meeting, Nazzaro said he can't say at this point which way he'll vote.

"I won't come down on one side or the other until I have a chance to review the information," he said.

The major concern cited by the councilors who didn't support the water model was the fact the Environmental Protection Agency hasn't made a guarantee that it will use the data collected by the communities in the water model.

Cost is also a factor.

The latest cost estimate is $600,000.

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