Research snapshot · Water · 31 August 2026

Lead and water quality in New Hampshire: 9 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 10 dated municipal records flagged as lead and water quality in New Hampshire, spanning 9 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 Colebrook, 2 October 2025. Since then 9 New Hampshire towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Meredith on 3 February 2026.

The last 90 days put 0 meetings on the record, well down from 1 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Select Board, Budget Committee and Finance Committee.

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 202533
Dec 2025 to Feb 202665
Mar 2026 to May 202611
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)00

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 6 meetings.

The towns on the record9, earliest first

Every New Hampshire town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Colebrookearliest 2025-10-02 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-10-02 · the public notice Important Notice about Drinking Water
Merrimackearliest 2025-10-09 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-10-09 · the minutes Minutes — Town Council
Barringtonearliest 2025-11-13 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-11-13 · the agenda Conservation Commission Meeting Agenda
Bristolearliest 2026-01-08 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-04-02 · the minutes Minutes — Select Board
Plaistowearliest 2026-01-12 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-01-12 · the agenda BOS Agenda
Candiaearliest 2026-01-14 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-02-11 · the minutes Minutes — Budget Committee
Portsmouthearliest 2026-01-14 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-01-14 · the document 1/14/2026 - Water-Sewer Rate Study Work Session
Meredithearliest 2026-02-03 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-02-03 · the minutes Minutes — Waukewan Watershed Advisory Committee
Marlboroughdated to the year only

From the record

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

2 April 2026 · Bristol Select Board

the minutes, on the town's own site Minutes — Select Board

11 February 2026 · Candia Budget Committee

the minutes, on the town's own site Minutes — Budget Committee

3 February 2026 · Meredith Waukewan Watershed Advisory Committee

the minutes, on the town's own site Minutes — Waukewan Watershed Advisory Committee

14 January 2026 · Portsmouth Finance Committee

the document, on the town's own site 1/14/2026 - Water-Sewer Rate Study Work Session

Companies on this record35 companies, 8 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:
Amherst/Turkey Hill intersectionMerrimack
Bristol House of Pizza (BHOP)Bristol
Bristol United Church of Christ (BUCC)Bristol
CAI TechnologiesBristol
Cardigan Lodge #30 (Odd Fellows)Bristol
Clean Energy New HampshireBristol
Colebrook Water WorksColebrook
Enterprise Rebecca Lodge #46Bristol
F.E. Evere1 TurnpikeMerrimack
Fish and GameMeredith
JMUESMerrimack
JobinMerrimack
Meredith Water DeptMeredith
Mid-State Health CenterBristol
NH Electric Co-OpMerrimack
NH Municipal Assoc.Candia
NH Open Meeting lawCandia
PinkertonCandia
Police Chief Brian LevesqueMerrimack
Pump Systems of FranklinBristol
Right to Know Law (RSA 91-A)Candia
RothhausMerrimack
SATWaSRBarrington
Sawhegenit Chapter of the Order of the Eastern StarBristol
SchulzBarrington
Schulz-O'NeilBarrington
SELTBarrington
SELTAyersBarrington
TameraCandia
Tapply-Thompson Community CenterBristol

And 5 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. 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.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

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Also at this scope: Lead and water quality across the country. 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.

Lead and water quality, New Hampshire

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

New Hampshire

every topic this state carries

Area

Water

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

9

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

2 October 2025

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

0 against 1 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

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