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FILE – In this Friday Jan. 7, 2011, file photo, water flows from a water fountain at the Boys and Girls Club in Concord.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Concord and the town of Bow are both eyeing a potential expansion of the public water supply outside the city, but the progress on an agreement between the two communities depends on the vantage point.<\/p>\n

In December, the city council approved spending $68,000 in federal grant money to conduct a study to sell water to communities<\/a> outside of Concord and have them pay a portion for the water supply they receive. The results of the study expected in spring will determine if Concord has the supply and the desire to provide water to neighboring towns.<\/p>\n

In Bow, Town Manager David Stack identified the vote as a significant step forward between the two communities to get a deal done to bring municipal water services to the southern end of town, including an area known as Bow Junction, where multiple businesses and auto dealers are located.<\/p>\n

Not so fast, Concord officials said. They reiterated that no formal agreement had been reached and the study was simply a tool to gather more information.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had interest expressed by Bow over a number of years. The town of Pembroke also has expressed some interest and so we\u2019re looking at the possibility of taking a regional approach to water supply,\u201d said Mayor Byron Champlin at last week\u2019s city council meeting. \u201cBut at this juncture, there is no agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

After years of discussion, Bow saw the study as progress that would yield an eventual agreement to extend water lines to help with localized contamination.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Monitor last month<\/a>, Stack said that Concord had agreed to work with Bow on linking its water system and was discussing the parameters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not an agreement and I told the selectmen in the last meeting,\u201d Stack Monday, clarifying his earlier comments. \u201cWe\u2019re in the talking stages. We\u2019ve been allowed to do that. But there\u2019s no agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more than 40 years, Bow has attempted to extend its water main and connect it to Concord\u2019s water system to supply water to areas with poor water quality like Bow Mills, Bow South Street, and Bow Junction. The water quality in these areas is affected due to contamination from a gasoline additive called Methyl tertiary-butyl Ether (MtBE). The presence of MtBE is frequently related to leaking underground gasoline storage tanks.<\/p>\n

If Concord and Bow reach an agreement, it will involve creating a loop in the current water main, starting from the town line where it connects with the city of Concord\u2019s water supply. The loop will extend along Route 3A and provide a service line to the area near the Grappone auto dealerships along the Interstate 93\/Interstate 89 interchange in Bow.<\/p>\n

Bow Selectman\u00a0Matthew Poulin, who is\u00a0on the committee that is looking into the water expansion project, went a step further than Stack and said an agreement had been reached. When asked about those statements, he declined to comment.<\/p>\n

A draft agreement Concord received from Bow was dated 2019 and signed by select board member Christopher Nicolopoulos. However, Thomas Aspell, city manager said that it has not been addressed or presented before the city council for approval.<\/p>\n

\u201cBow has went out and hired their own engineers and a private company to do the work and we gave them all the information we have in our system,\u201d said Aspell. \u201cThat\u2019s all that\u2019s been going on and there\u2019s no discussions going on now that I\u2019m aware of.\u201d<\/p>\n

The information was shared with Bow over a year ago with the intent that it could investigate whether it was possible to connect to Concord\u2019s system.<\/p>\n

Poulin is on the ballot for another term on the select board\u00a0and running against three other candidates.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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