What is a wetland?

Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwaters at a frequency and duration sufficient to support and that under normal circumstances do support a prevalence of vegetation adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, as defined by the Field Indicators for Identifying Hydric Soils in New England, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (as amended) and the Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual, Technical Report Y-87-1, Environmental Laboratory, Department of the Army, 1987. (Gilmanton Zoning Ordinance and State Law). Please see the Wetlands Bureau’s website for more information and fact sheets.