Research snapshot · Water · 31 August 2026

Lead and water quality in Vermont: 5 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 25 dated municipal records flagged as lead and water quality in Vermont, spanning 5 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 Hartford, 21 March 2023. Since then 5 Vermont towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Westminster on 20 April 2026.

The last 90 days put 0 meetings on the record, well down from 2 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Significant Activity Reports and Water Quality Reports.

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 202500
Dec 2025 to Feb 202600
Mar 2026 to May 202621
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 Mar 2026 to May 2026, with 2 meetings.

The towns on the record5, earliest first

Every Vermont town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Hartfordearliest 2023-03-21 · 19 meetings · latest 2025-06-24 · a report Significant Activity Report - June 24, 2025
Fair Havenearliest 2025-05-15 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-05-15 · a report Lead Service Line Replacement Plan – Fair Haven Final
Derbyearliest 2025-05-22 · 2 meetings · latest 2025-05-22 · the document CCR Report 2022
Williamstownearliest 2025-08-08 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-08-08 · the document otter-creek-engineering-williamstown-vt
Westminsterearliest 2026-04-20 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-04-30 · the document SB 4 14 26

From the record

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

30 April 2026 · Westminster

the document, on the town's own site SB 4 14 26

8 August 2025 · Williamstown

the document, on the town's own site otter-creek-engineering-williamstown-vt

24 June 2025 · Hartford Significant Activity Reports

a report, on the town's own site Significant Activity Report - June 24, 2025

22 May 2025 · Derby

the document, on the town's own site CCR Report 2022

Companies on this record109 companies, 23 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:
Green Mountain PowerHartford
Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC)Hartford
EPICHartford
Champlin AssociatesHartford
A.J. FollensbeeHartford
AquarobicsHartford
Brian Hanson Scholarship ProgramHartford
CentrisysHartford
Corrosion Products & Equipment (CPE)Hartford
Dartmouth Energy AllianceHartford
Deerfield Valley Communications Union DistrictWestminster
DuBois & KingWestminster
DVFiberWestminster
Good Neighbor Health ClinicHartford
HCRSHartford
Junction Arts and Media center (JAM, formerly CATV)Hartford
TRORCHartford
Upper Valley Mountain Bike AssociationHartford
VLCTHartford
Windham County Lead Hazard ControlWestminster
Aldrich and ElliottFair Haven
Allen Pools and SpasHartford
America Water Works Association (AWWA)Hartford
American Water WorksHartford
AXIOMATIC/VTPIEHartford
Bartlett treeHartford
Blackrock DevelopmentHartford
Bob’s Service CenterHartford
business ownerHartford
C.A.S.THartford

And 79 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, Vermont

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Vermont

every topic this state carries

Area

Water

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

5

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

21 March 2023

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

0 against 2 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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