Public Water Access Advisory Board
The Public Water Access Advisory Board (PWAAB)'s charge is to advise, monitor and coordinate state agency public access efforts including the Statewide Public Access Program. The Board is in support of the Fish and Game Department's Public Access Program to maximize these state ownerships on public water for the public's benefit.
| Click on the image below for a 3-minute video about launching from Fish and Game's award-winning boat access facility on on Lake Winnisquam.
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The Public Water Access Advisory Board is comprised of 19 members representing the following organizations and interests: N.H. Fish and Game Department; Department of Resources and Economic Development; Department of Environmental Services; Department of Transportation; Department of Safety; Office of State Planning; two members of the general public; two Senators; two House members (one from Resources and Recreation Committee and one from the Fish and Game Committee); public members representing the following interest groups: hunting, fishing, power boating, lake associations, rivers associations, non-motorized boating and the Governor's Commission on Disability. Members are appointed for a term of 3 years. (Click to skip to list of current members.)
Public Water Access Advisory Board members have worked on a number of important access endeavors over the years, becoming a central repository for access information and fostering a communal effort between state agencies that deal in public access.
Access Sites
For a list of Fish and Game public
water access sites in
New Hampshire, click here.
Public Access Maps for New Hampshire's 35 largest lakes
For an interactive GIS map viewer of all N.H. public access and other recreation sites, click here and then selection the "Recreation" map layer.
To learn about the proposed Wild Goose Public Access site on Lake Sunapee, click here.
| PWAAB Annual Reports (click on year): |
PWAAB Meetings
Public Water Access Advisory Board meetings are open to the public. Routinely, these meetings occur on Mondays in alternate months (starting in February), from 9 a.m. to 12 noon at the N.H. Fish and Game Department headquarters, 11 Hazen Drive, Concord, N.H. Please note that meeting dates are subject to cancellation or change. Public participants should call Administrative Secretary Ellen Macneil at 603-271-2461 to confirm the date of the next meeting.
| PWAAB Meeting Minutes (click on date) - Minutes are posted only after formal approval. | ||
| 2012 Minutes | 2011 Minutes | Archives of Minutes |
PWAAB Board Members
Current members of N.H.'s Public Water Access Advisory Board are listed below:
| BOARD MEMBER NAME and affiliation |
ADDRESS | TERM EXPIRES |
| Thomas Quarles, Esq, Chair - General Public | Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A., 111 Amherst Street, Manchester, NH 03101; Phone: (603) 695-8641; Fax: (603) 666-4288; Email: tquarles@devinemillimet.com | October 27, 2013 |
| Ellen Macneil, Administrative Secretary | NH Fish and Game Department |
N/A |
N.H. FISH AND GAME DEPARTMENT
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11 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03301;
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N/A |
| Mary Ellen Mel Pfeifle - Hunting Interests | 80 Ring Hill Road, Bradford, NH 03221; Phone: (603) 938-5981; Email: mpfeifle@conknet.net | October 27, 2013 |
The Hon. Jeanie Forrester, NH State Senate |
State House, Room 105-A Concord, NH 03301 |
N/A |
The Hon. James Forsythe, NH State Senate |
L.O.B, Room 5, 33 North State Street, Concord, NH 03301; Phone: (603) 271-3067 (w) Email: james.forsythe@leg.state.nh.us | N/A |
The Hon. Tyler W. Simpson |
PO Box 757, Ashland, NH 03217-0757; |
N/A |
The Hon. Laurie Pettengill |
PO Box 35, Glen, NH 03838-0035; |
N/A |
| Jayne E. Spaulding - General Public | 18 Brick Mill Road, Bedford, NH 03110-5114; Phone: (603) 471-0735 (h); (603) 493-5406 (w); |
October 27, 2012 |
R. Andrew Robertson |
32 Haynes Rd, Deerfield, NH 03037; Phone: (603) 463-7158 (h); (603) 736-8562 (w); Email: arobert536@aol.com | October 27, 2013 |
Richard Smith - Fishing Interests |
123 Prospect Hill Road, Hancock, NH 03449; |
October 27, 2013 |
| Joseph B. Goodnough - N.H. Lakes Association | 213 Bay Point Road, Box 2023, Newbury, NH 03255; Phone: (603)763-9667 (h) ; Email: joe.goodnough@myfairpoint.net | October 27, 2013 |
Marcy Stanton, River Interests |
1414 Center Road, Lyndeborough, NH 03082 |
December 16, 2013 |
| B. David Bryan - Coastal Conservation Commission | 36 Great Hill Drive, Newmarket, NH 03857; Phone: (603) 661-0147; Email: David_Bryan_NH@oldnacl.com | October 5, 2011 |
| Jacquie Colburn -- NH DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES | 29 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03301; Phone:
(603) 271-2959; Email: jcolburn@des.state.nh.us |
N/A |
| Lt. Timothy Dunleavy, NH DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY | 31 Dock Road, Gilford, NH 03249; Phone: (603) 293-2037; E-mail: timothy.dunleavy@dos.nh.gov | N/A |
Bob Spoerl - NH DEPT OF RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT |
PO Box 1856, Concord, NH 03302-1856; Phone: (603) 271-2214 x307; Email: bspoerl@dred.state.nh.us |
N/A |
Matt Urban - NH DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION |
7 Hazen Drive, PO Box 483 (mailing) Concord, NH 03302; Phone: (603) 271-3226; Email: murban@dot.state.nh.us |
N/A |
| Stephen Walker, NH OFFICE OF ENERGY AND PLANNING | NHOEP, Johnson Hall, 107 Pleasant Street, Concord, NH 03301; Phone: (603) 271-6834; |
N/A |
| Jillian Shedd or Thomas Manning |
GCD, 57 Regional Drive, Concord, NH 03301 |
N/A |
| Scott Verdonck |
19 Benjamin Drive, Goffstown, NH 03045; |
October 27, 2013 |
