This page is a snapshot, cut 13 September 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.
PFAS (long-lasting industrial chemicals found in water and soil, sometimes called forever chemicals) and other contaminants in water, soil and sludge: testing programs, remediation, disposal and land-application limits, and the state and federal requirements towns act under.Our definition of the class.
Snapshot taken 13 September 2026, based on 403 dated municipal records flagged as pfas and contaminants, spanning 261 municipalities across 37 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.
Source documents 3 of 4 on this page link straight to the town's own record. The rest are available on request. Ask for access.
The record starts in Maine, 1 January 2009. Since then 261 municipalities in 37 states have put the topic on a meeting record, at very different speeds: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts hold 62% of the dated events between them.
The last 90 days put 18 meetings on the record, well down from 95 in the 90 days before.
It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Conservation Commission, Select Board and Town Council.
| Quarter | Meetings | Towns | States |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 to Nov 2025 | 18 | 15 | 11 |
| Dec 2025 to Feb 2026 | 120 | 81 | 21 |
| Mar 2026 to May 2026 | 94 | 73 | 19 |
| Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 (current) | 20 | 16 | 6 |
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 120 meetings.
| State | Towns on the record | Meetings, 90 days | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 46 | 7 ▼ -41.7% | 2026-09-10 |
| Massachusetts | 41 | 2 | 2026-08-06 |
| New Hampshire | 37 | 6 | 2026-08-13 |
| Connecticut | 18 | 0 | 2026-06-01 |
| Vermont | 17 | 0 | 2026-05-26 |
| Illinois | 11 | 0 | 2026-03-05 |
| New York | 8 | 0 | 2026-05-20 |
| Maryland | 6 | 0 | 2026-04-27 |
| California | 6 | 0 | 2025-12-10 |
| New Jersey | 6 | 1 | 2026-06-22 |
| Texas | 6 | 0 | 2025-10-22 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | 0 | 2026-03-25 |
| Washington | 5 | 1 new on the record | 2026-06-18 |
| Wisconsin lighter read | 4 | 0 | 2026-06-04 |
| Idaho lighter read | 4 | 0 | 2026-03-23 |
And 22 more states on the record, in an account view.
10 September 2026 · Brunswick, Maine
the agenda, on the town's own site Agenda — 2026-09-10
10 September 2026 · Augusta, Maine
the document, on the town's own site 9 10 26 Informational Meeting 1788981369
9 September 2026 · Portland, Maine City Council
the meeting packet, on the town's own site Special City Council Meeting - September 9, 2026 2026-09-09 — City Council Meeting Agenda Packet - September 9, 2026 V2
26 August 2026 · Biddeford, Maine Shellfish Conservation Committee
the meeting packet, on the town's own site Shellfish Conservation Commission 2026-08-26 — Shellfish Commission
And 1063 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 13 September 2026; the topic is not. 98 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 13 September 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: PFAS Is Spreading Through Municipal Agendas Faster Than Groundwater. 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
261
States on the record
37
Earliest
1 January 2009
Meetings, last 90 days
18 against 95 before
Snapshot cut
13 September 2026
A view that stays current