Research snapshot · Water · 13 September 2026

Stormwater management across the country: 276 towns on the record, the pace easing

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.

Stormwater standards, drainage and culvert work, permit conditions under state and federal discharge rules, and the utility fees some towns adopt to pay for them.Our definition of the class.

Snapshot taken 13 September 2026, based on 406 dated municipal records flagged as stormwater management, spanning 276 municipalities across 38 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 story so far

The record starts in California, 17 March 2009. Since then 276 municipalities in 38 states have put the topic on a meeting record, at very different speeds: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire hold 52% of the dated events between them.

The last 90 days put 29 meetings on the record, down from 78 in the 90 days before.

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

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.
QuarterMeetingsTownsStates
Sep 2025 to Nov 2025312515
Dec 2025 to Feb 2026947120
Mar 2026 to May 2026795915
Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 (current)292614

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 94 meetings.

Where it is moving38 states

The same topic at different speeds in different states. A state's name opens its own page where one exists.
StateTowns on the recordMeetings, 90 daysLatest
Maine396 ▼ -14.3%2026-09-09
Massachusetts3972026-08-26
New Hampshire3832026-06-29
Vermont192 ▼ -33.3%2026-06-22
Illinois181 ▬ +0.0%2026-07-31
New York111 ▼ -50.0%2026-06-23
New Jersey1022026-07-14
California902026-02-09
Connecticut802026-04-20
Pennsylvania802026-05-06
Utah712026-06-23
Washington602026-05-12
Rhode Island602026-02-12
Kentucky61 new on the record2026-06-16
Arizona502025-02-18

And 23 more states 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.

9 September 2026 · Falmouth, Maine Ordinance Committee

the ordinance, on the town's own site 2026.08.03 Ordinance Committee.pdf

26 August 2026 · Brewster, Massachusetts Planning Board

the agenda, on the town's own site Planning Board

19 August 2026 · Laramie, Wyoming

the agenda, on the town's own site Agenda — 2026-08-19

11 August 2026 · Morgantown, West Virginia

the agenda, on the town's own site Agenda — 2026-08-11

Companies on this record1087 companies, 356 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:
ComcastBrunswick, Clarendon Hills, Franklin and 6 more
NHDESAtkinson, Bow, Bristol and 5 more
AmazonClarendon Hills, Coventry, Grafton and 6 more
AT&TClarendon Hills, Coventry, Friendswood and 6 more
AECOMClarendon Hills, Clifton, Coventry and 5 more
American Water WorksClarendon Hills, Clifton, Coventry and 5 more
Advanced Drainage SystemsClarendon Hills, Clifton, Coventry and 4 more
AES CorporationClarendon Hills, Clifton, Coventry and 4 more
Maine DEPActon, Augusta, Brunswick and 2 more
AirgasClarendon Hills, Coventry, Grafton and 3 more
Casella Waste SystemsClifton, Coventry, St. Albans Town and 1 more
SpectrumAlfred, Bar Harbor, Casper and 1 more
StantecDouglas, Portsmouth, Sandwich and 1 more
Efficiency VT (VEIC)Montpelier
ArcadisClarendon Hills, Stratham, Takoma Park
CDW CorporationCoventry, Grafton, Takoma Park
Federal Emergency Management AgencyActon, Brunswick, North Providence
National Weather ServiceAugusta, Clarendon Hills, Northfield
VerizonFranklin, La Mesa, Mansfield
Weston & SampsonActon, Bow, Hartford
GPCOGFalmouth, Yarmouth
National Fire Protection AssociationAtkinson, Libertyville
DuBois & King (D&K)Montpelier
PG&ELos Altos Hills
Pracademic PartnersMontpelier
Stillwater Environmental Engineering, Inc.Lewiston
Turtle Island Child Care (TICC)Montpelier
AARPMurrysville, Rahway
Algonquin Power & UtilitiesClarendon Hills, Placer County
ARPABristol, North Miami Beach

And 1057 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 13 September 2026; the topic is not. 109 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

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. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Stormwater management, across the country

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Across the country

Area

Water

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

276

with a dated document on this topic

States on the record

38

counted from the record

Earliest

17 March 2009

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

29 against 78 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

13 September 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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