N.H. Code Admin. R. Env-Sw 804.05
Geologic Siting Limitations
Effective Dec 21, 2024#5172, eff 7-1-91; ss by #6535, INTERIM, eff 7-1-97, EXPIRES: 10-29-97; ss by #6619-B, eff 10-29-97; (See Revision Note at chapter heading for Env-Sw 800); ss by #8459, eff 10-28-05 (formerly Env-Wm 2504.05); ss by #10597, eff 7-1-14; ss by #14156, eff 12-21-24Solid Waste Programs
- (a) The footprint of a landfill and associated leachate storage units shall be a minimum of 200 feet from faults that have had displacement in Holocene time, meaning from Pleistocene to present or within the last 11,000 years.
- (b) No landfill footprint or associated stormwater, leachate, or decomposition gas, infrastructure shall overlie an area underlain by karstified dolomite or limestone or an area susceptible to mass movements of earth material such as landslides, rockfalls, mudslides, slumps, earth flows, or subsidence.
Source. #5172, eff 7-1-91; ss by #6535, INTERIM, eff 7-1-97, EXPIRES: 10-29-97; ss by #6619-B, eff 10-29-97; (See Revision Note at chapter heading for Env-Sw 800); ss by #8459, eff 10-28-05 (formerly Env-Wm 2504.05); ss by #10597, eff 7-1-14; ss by #14156, eff 12-21-24