Appeal of Milford Water Works

This is an appeal by the Milford Water Works (utility) for relief from two conditions contained in an order by the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (PUC) granting the petition of that utility to exempt it from the zoning ordinances of the town of Amherst with regard to the laying of pipes from a well owned by the utility and located in Amherst to the utility’s customers in Milford. We hold that the PUC had the authority to impose the contested conditions and that they are not unreasonable.

The Milford Water Works has been owned and operated by the town of Milford since 1890. It became…