Research snapshot · Environmental · 31 August 2026

Environmental protection general in New Hampshire: 44 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 101 dated municipal records flagged as environmental protection general in New Hampshire, spanning 44 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Hampton, 13 October 2008. Since then 44 New Hampshire towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Mont Vernon on 8 July 2026.

The last 90 days put 10 meetings on the record, down from 26 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Conservation Commission, Planning Board and Select Board.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202564
Dec 2025 to Feb 20263019
Mar 2026 to May 20262817
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)108

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 30 meetings.

The towns on the record44, earliest first

Every New Hampshire town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Hamptonearliest 2008-10-13 · 1 meeting · latest 2008-10-13 · the agenda 10-13-08 BOS Agenda (PDF) Draft
Nashuaearliest 2020-01-09 · 2 meetings · latest 2023-12-11 · the ordinance O-23-052
Doverearliest 2020-12-15 · 1 meeting · latest 2020-12-15 · the document Site Plan Application FY24
Strathamearliest 2024-01-18 · 3 meetings · latest 2024-11-20 · the minutes Conservation Commission — cc minutes 112024 public draft 0
Portsmouthearliest 2024-08-05 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-08-05 · the document Water and Sewer (pages 227-256)
Rindgeearliest 2024-09-11 · 10 meetings · latest 2026-08-27 · the minutes Conservation Commission — RCC Agenda 082726
Plymouthearliest 2024-12-19 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-12-19 · the document Planning Board — 12-19-24 PB Minutes
Bowearliest 2025-02-08 · 4 meetings · latest 2026-06-18 · the agenda 6/18/2026 Planning Board Agenda
Bartlettearliest 2025-02-11 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-02-11 · the minutes Minutes — Conservation Commission
Newtonearliest 2025-03-12 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-03-12 · the minutes Minutes — Conservation Commission
Leeearliest 2025-03-18 · 6 meetings · latest 2026-05-25 · the agenda Conservation Commission Regular Meeting Agenda
Hanoverearliest 2025-05-05 · 5 meetings · latest 2026-06-25 · the agenda Public Hearings, Consideration of Request for Rehearing
Atkinsonearliest 2025-05-20 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-03-25 · the agenda Conservation Commission Regular Meeting Agenda (PDF)
Barringtonearliest 2025-05-22 · 3 meetings · latest 2025-11-13 · the agenda Conservation Commission Meeting Agenda
Ossipeeearliest 2025-06-17 · 2 meetings · latest 2025-08-13 · the agenda Conservation Commission Regular Meeting Agenda (PDF)

And 29 more towns on the record, in an account view.

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

27 August 2026 · Rindge Conservation Commission

the minutes, on the town's own site Conservation Commission — RCC Agenda 082726

9 July 2026 · Canterbury Conservation Commission

the document, on the town's own site 2026-07-09_Conservation_Commission_Minutes_DRAFT

8 July 2026 · Mont Vernon

the minutes, on the town's own site AgendaCenter minutes

25 June 2026 · Hanover Zoning Board of Adjustment

the agenda, on the town's own site Public Hearings, Consideration of Request for Rehearing

Companies on this record287 companies, 88 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
NHDESAlton, Andover, Atkinson and 8 more
EversourceChester, Lee, Plymouth and 2 more
NHACCBow, Greenland, Hampton Falls and 1 more
AECOMHanover, Stratham, Wolfeboro
AES CorporationHanover, Stratham, Wolfeboro
American Water WorksHanover, Stratham, Wolfeboro
AT&THanover, Stratham, Wolfeboro
Casella Waste SystemsHanover, Stratham, Wolfeboro
CDW CorporationHanover, Stratham, Wolfeboro
SELTBarrington, Lee, Stratham
DicklerRindge
LefebvreRindge
Advanced Drainage SystemsHanover, Stratham
AirgasHanover, Stratham
AmazonHanover, Stratham
ArcadisHanover, Wolfeboro
CNHRPCCanterbury, Pembroke
PREPLee, Stratham
CathedralRindge
Christ Redeemer ChurchHanover
Christiane McAllisterStratham
DrouinRindge
Eversource EnergyGoffstown
FB EnvironmentalLaconia
George and Dominique LightbodyHanover
Jeff and Lara AckerHanover
MellorRindge
MMRGMilton
TetreaultRindge
3M CompanyWolfeboro

And 257 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 85 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

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Environmental protection general, New Hampshire

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

New Hampshire

every topic this state carries

Area

Environmental

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

44

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

13 October 2008

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

10 against 26 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

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