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Hampton board approves wastewater ordinance revisions and credits Liberty Lane capacity study
Summary
As sewer commissioners the Select Board approved changes to the town’s Wastewater System Development Charge rules and voted to credit Liberty Lane $115,615 for its capacity analysis, lowering that project’s WWDC payment to $283,120.12, the board said Jan. 12.
The Hampton Select Board, sitting as Sewer Commissioners on Jan. 12, approved revisions to the town’s wastewater development charge regulations and granted a credit for a developer-funded capacity analysis.
Director of Public Works Dir. Hale told the board the revisions are intended to clarify language in §808 and §809 of the Select Board’s wastewater rules and to reflect that rates should cover capital improvements and the management, maintenance, operation and repair of the collection system in accordance with RSA 149-I:7. The board also approved changes to allow the Public Works Director to adjust charges for seasonal uses and to permit reasonable capacity-analysis costs to be deducted from Wastewater System Development Charges (WWDC) with Sewer Commissioners’ approval.
Dir. Hale presented a specific request to credit the Liberty Lane project for a capacity analysis that cost $115,615. He reported Liberty Lane’s WWDC would be about $398,735 and that crediting the study would reduce the WWDC due at certificate of occupancy to $283,120.12. Town Manager James Sullivan said the town will own those capacity analyses and that they “will help us in the future.”
The board voted 5-0-0 to adopt the director’s recommendations and to amend §809-12 so that the charge references the current rate as approved by the Sewer Commissioners instead of a hard-coded dollar figure.
Why it matters: the ordinance revisions change how the town accounts for growth-related capital and operational costs, add an administrative mechanism for seasonal adjustments, and create a process for developers to be credited for peer-reviewable capacity analyses that the town will own and can use for future planning.
What comes next: the Select Board will finalize revised ordinance text for the town’s records and the WWDC rules will be applied under the revised language going forward. The Liberty Lane credit will be applied to that project’s WWDC payment at the certificate-of-occupancy stage.
Quote: Town Manager James Sullivan said the studies the town will own “will help us in the future.”
