New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Env - Department of Environmental Services
Subtitle Env-Wq - Water Quality and Quantity Programs
Chapter Env-Wq 2100 - WATER CONSERVATION; USE REGISTRATION AND REPORTING
Part Env-Wq 2102 - WATER USE REGISTRATION AND REPORTING
Section Env-Wq 2102.10 - Measurement of Volume of Water Use Required
Current through Register No. 13, March 27, 2025
(a) Each water user that is not an agriculture water user, a limited water user, or the owner of a mobile facility that qualifies for an intermittent registration under Env-Wq 2102.32(a)(1) shall use the methods described in Env-Wq 2102.11 through Env-Wq 2102.15 to measure or quantify:
(b) Measuring devices and structures shall register and be calibrated for the full flow range of the withdrawal, diversion, or discharge being measured.
(c) Each individual withdrawal shall be measured separately from other withdrawals at the facility, except that for individual wells registered as a wellfield, measurement of the combined withdrawal shall be accepted.
(d) Each individual discharge at a facility that exceeds 20,000 gallons per day of water shall be measured separately from other discharges at the facility except that the discharge may be reported based on the withdrawal volume if the daily volume of the discharge equals at least 90 percent of the volume of the corresponding withdrawal.
(e) There shall be no turnouts or diversions between the source of water and the measuring devices, except for faucets or other small outlets that have a de minimis effect on the diversion or withdrawal.
(f) In those cases where wells are authorized for the purpose of supplementing surface waters with water from combined sources, both sources of water shall be measured.
(g) A water user shall implement water use measurement approaches which:
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