Testing the water has been the job of the NH-DES for some number of years. Possibly they have a test lab over next to the Winnisquam boat launch or maybe they get the water tested somewhere else?
I seem to recall a NH law that any body of water that is 10-acres or larger is usually the property of the State of New Hampshire so that could be one reason.
Another is that water testing for different bacteria is a serious and complex test so it's best to have one state agency responsible for the whole state as opposed to individual towns so the test will be better administrated and performed with higher accuracy and regularity and then have the test results publicly posted without any hesitation, as opposed for example, to a local town that wants to keep it their little secret, at least until after the big holiday weekend or something like that...
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