Research snapshot · Water · 31 August 2026

Stormwater management in Maine: 37 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.

Already a well-mapped Known topic. NPDES and water resource management merged in.Our definition of the class, 29 August 2026.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 73 dated municipal records flagged as stormwater management in Maine, spanning 37 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 Windham, 9 February 2015. Since then 37 Maine towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them York on 12 May 2026.

The last 90 days put 3 meetings on the record, well down from 9 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Planning Board, City Ordinance Revisions 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 202587
Dec 2025 to Feb 202696
Mar 2026 to May 2026119
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)33

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 11 meetings.

The towns on the record37, earliest first

Every Maine town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Windhamearliest 2015-02-09 · 2 meetings · latest 2023-01-01 · the document 11. Section 900 Subdivision Review [Revised 2-28-17]
Skowheganearliest 2017-01-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2017-01-01 · the document covenants southgate.pdf
Yarmouthearliest 2022-03-01 · 4 meetings · latest 2026-02-19 · the document Planning Board — Harbor Pump Station - Site Plan and Shoreland Review Report
Lewistonearliest 2022-03-28 · 8 meetings · latest 2025-06-16 · the agenda Finance Committee Agenda/Packet - 06/16/2025
Libertyearliest 2022-04-28 · 1 meeting · latest 2022-04-28 · the minutes 220411-minutes
East Millinocketearliest 2022-09-20 · 1 meeting · latest 2022-09-20 · the minutes September 20th, 2022 - Meeting Minutes
Augustaearliest 2023-05-04 · 4 meetings · latest 2025-12-09 · the minutes Minutes
Turnerearliest 2023-06-06 · 1 meeting · latest 2023-06-06 · the document Erosion+and+Sedimentation+Control
Cape Elizabethearliest 2023-06-08 · 2 meetings · latest 2024-07-10 · the ordinance Zoning Ordinance
Actonearliest 2023-06-21 · 5 meetings · latest 2026-07-07 · the document 20240416_PB.a
Jayearliest 2023-09-11 · 1 meeting · latest 2023-09-11 · the minutes September 11, 2023
Falmouthearliest 2023-10-03 · 9 meetings · latest 2026-08-10 · the document Council Work Plan Priorities FY26-27.pdf
Presque Isleearliest 2024-02-14 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-02-14 · the minutes Minutes
Wiltonearliest 2024-02-23 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-02-23 · the minutes Selectboard Minutes 04-04-2023
Bangorearliest 2024-04-11 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-05-06 · the agenda City Council Budget Workshop Regular Meeting Agenda (PDF)

And 22 more towns 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.

10 August 2026 · Falmouth Town Council

the document, on the town's own site Council Work Plan Priorities FY26-27.pdf

22 July 2026 · Brunswick Rivers & Coastal Waters Commission (RCWC)

the agenda, on the town's own site RCWC Regular Meeting

7 July 2026 · Acton

the document, on the town's own site 20240416_PB.a

12 May 2026 · York

the agenda, on the town's own site AgendaCenter agenda

Companies on this record180 companies, 64 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:
Maine DEPActon, Augusta, Saco and 1 more
Stillwater Environmental Engineering, Inc.Lewiston
AVCOGLewiston, Wilton
Big Ledge, LLCBerwick, Saco
Bowdoin CollegeBath, Brunswick
Cumberland County Soil & Water Conservation DistrictFalmouth, South Portland
GPCOGFalmouth, Yarmouth
Richardson & AssociatesCamden, York
SpectrumBar Harbor, Wilton
Allegiance Fire and RescueLewiston
BIW (Bath Iron Works)Bath
E&S EnvironmentalLewiston
Gendron Corp.Lewiston
KELTBath
NormandeauSaco
Sargent Corp.Lewiston
2A architects, llcAugusta
A King Dailey LLCLewiston
Acorn EngineeringSaco
Acton Public Access TelevisionActon
Acton Solar LLCActon
Addison Capital LLCFalmouth
AFCLKBath
Androscoggin Valley Soil and Water Conservation DistrictLewiston
ArchipelagoNAFalmouth
Army EngineersWilton
Ashland Farm, LLCFalmouth
Auburn Town Center Apartments, LLCAuburn
Augusta Historic District Review BoardAugusta
Augusta Northern CompanyAugusta

And 150 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. 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.

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Stormwater management, Maine

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Maine

every topic this state carries

Area

Water

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

37

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

9 February 2015

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

3 against 9 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

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