About PREP

We are the partnership
The Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership is just that, a partnership. The 2010 Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan is what informs our work and priorities, and names 200 different partners to help carry out 82 Action Plans to improve water quality and environmental conditions throughout our watershed. Our work is driven by input from a diverse and talented group of stakeholders in three different committees and is supported and implemented by a wide-ranging group of partners and 52 municipalities. The initiatives, work, and projects that are required to protect, preserve, and monitor the Great Bay and Hampton-Seabrook estuaries rely upon the collective action of many partners, constructive collaboration, and shared successes.
The Partnership is made up of four staff, three committees, 52 municipalities, 82 stakeholder organizations, agencies, and coalitions, and is one of 28 National Estuary Programs across the country.
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PREP Strives to

  • Improve the water quality and overall health of the region’s estuaries.

  • Encourage all who live, work, and play on the Seacoast to take actions to help protect and preserve the places we love.

  • Support regional development patterns that protect water quality, maintain open spaces and important habitat, and preserve estuarine resources.

  • Track environmental trends through the implementation of a long term monitoring program to assess indicators of estuarine health.

  • Develop broad-based popular support for the implementation of the Management Plan by encouraging involvement of the public, local government, and other interested parties in its implementation.

  • Support conservation and restoration initiatives across the region.