Bow Select Board approves letters, grant applications and commitments to advance Concord and Hooksett water connections

The Bow Select Board used a May 27 working session to advance two intermunicipal water projects: a potential wholesale connection to Concord supplying Bow Junction and a south‑side extension tied to Hooksett. The board voted unanimously to send a formal request to the city of Concord asking it to consider providing wholesale water to Bow Junction consistent with Concord’s August 2024 source development charge (SDC) study. The board also authorized updating and submitting a State Revolving Fund (SRF) pre‑application to keep the project in the funding queue.

Consultants told the board the Concord SDC study, funded by the Drinking Water Trust Fund, outlined two possible charges: an SDC for system expansion and a possible separate buy‑in fee for use of existing Concord infrastructure. Consultants said the likely SDC in 2027 would be about $7.57 per gallon per day (gpd) of capacity requested; consultants presented illustrative scenarios with low‑end SDC costs in the low‑hundreds of thousands and high‑end estimates — if a buy‑in fee were assessed — approaching…