10/05/2025
State wide Town Hall Meeting Raymond New Hampshire High School 6:30 Pm October 6th
WATER
Towns cannot thrive in complete isolation, nor can they succeed when entirely controlled by outside agencies. The complex issues surrounding water demand a wide range of ideas and diverse, localized solutions. This meeting serves as an initial dialogue To address urgent concerns about our water systems. All towns require clean, safe drinking water, and we must prevent the contamination of potable water by sewage or stormwater systems. We need to filter water as naturally as possible, allowing it to return to the ground and waterways--recharging our lakes, ponds, reservoirs, aquifers, wetlands, and even the ocean.
While some legislation has been designed to protect public health and safety, development interests often interfere, weakening these protections. State agencies and judicial bodies have sometimes failed to uphold the laws meant to safeguard our environment. A troubling example is the approval of a gas station on a protected groundwater aquifer or wellhead. Such decisions may benefit developers in the short term, but they deprive citizens of essential rights: clean water, a healthy environment, the freedom to grow food, and the ability to live and thrive. We have seen clear evidence that both people and ecosystems suffer when potable water IS lost- bringing increased risks of disease, lost livelihoods, and diminished well-being.
So how do we, the people, join together and raise our voices as a collective-a water choir? This choir must draw upon our shared knowledge and experience to balance the growing demands on our water. These demands span environmental concerns, taxation and finances, infrastructure, development, municipalities, agencies with water jurisdiction, and legislation. We must foster cooperation-cooperation that leads to proactive application of laws, thoughtful growth, and responsible stewardship of all water-related
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