Stream water was collected at weekly to monthly intervals at 29 stream sites in New Hampshire (USA). Ten of the stream sites were instrumented with high‐frequency sensors. Twenty-one of the stream sites (including 5 sensor sites) are in the Lamprey River Hydrologic Observatory (LRHO; Wymore et al 2021) and two stream sites were nearby the LRHO. Groundwater was collected from two riparian well fields (JF, 14 wells and WHB, 13 wells). Wells were installed in 2004 and sampled monthly through May 2007, then quarterly until December 2009, after which a subset (JF, 6 and WHB, 5) was generally sampled quarterly. Stream and groundwater samples span a 17-year collection period and were analyzed for sodium, chloride and specific conductance. Methods and findings are described in the associated Limnology and Oceanography Letters manuscript.