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 103 dated municipal records flagged as lead and water quality, spanning 84 municipalities across 26 states. 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 record starts in Maine, 1 September 2019. Since then 84 municipalities in 26 states have put the topic on a meeting record, at very different speeds: Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts hold 48% of the dated events between them.
The last 90 days put 5 meetings on the record, well down from 16 in the 90 days before.
It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Significant Activity Reports, Water Quality Reports and Finance Committee.
| Quarter | Meetings | Towns | States |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 to Nov 2025 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Dec 2025 to Feb 2026 | 19 | 16 | 9 |
| Mar 2026 to May 2026 | 17 | 15 | 10 |
| Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current) | 5 | 4 | 3 |
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 19 meetings.
| State | Towns on the record | Meetings, 90 days | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 11 | 3 new on the record | 2026-07-28 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | 0 | 2026-04-28 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | 0 | 2026-04-02 |
| Illinois | 7 | 0 | 2026-03-24 |
| Vermont | 5 | 0 | 2026-04-30 |
| Connecticut | 5 | 0 | 2026-04-07 |
| Utah | 5 | 0 | 2026-05-19 |
| Idaho lighter read | 3 | 0 | 2024-07-18 |
| New York lighter read | 3 | 0 | 2026-03-23 |
| New Jersey lighter read | 3 | 0 | 2026-01-06 |
| Michigan lighter read | 3 | 0 | |
| Wisconsin lighter read | 2 | 0 | 2026-02-05 |
| Kentucky lighter read | 2 | 1 new on the record | 2026-06-23 |
| Pennsylvania lighter read | 2 | 0 | 2026-03-04 |
| Texas lighter read | 2 | 0 |
And 11 more states on the record, in an account view.
28 July 2026 · Saco, Maine Historic Preservation Commission
a report, on the town's own site 25 Cross St__HPC COA Memo.pdf
26 June 2026 · Sunland Park, New Mexico
the document, on the town's own site 2025 Drinking Water Quality Metrics and Infrastructure Updates Available for Sunland Park Residents
23 June 2026 · Nicholasville, Kentucky
the document, on the town's own site 2025 CCR – Nicholasville
18 June 2026 · Brunswick, Maine
the agenda, on the town's own site Agenda — 2026-06-18
And 371 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.
Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 52 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.
We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 31 August 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.
Each state's name above opens its own page. The site's story on this topic: Lead Pipes Are a $50B Problem Hiding in Municipal Agendas. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.
Scope
Across the country
Towns on the record
84
States on the record
26
Earliest
1 September 2019
Meetings, last 90 days
5 against 16 before
Snapshot cut
31 August 2026
A view that stays current