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Bartows Mobile Home Park

What EPA’s and Massachusetts’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
25 people
Connections
11
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Otis, MA
County
Berkshire
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

01253

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Massachusetts’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Fluoride, nitrate, arsenic and chromium (total): Massachusetts’s own results, samples taken from March 31, 2025 to Feb. 16, 2026.

Below EPA’s limits2

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.23ppm

Highest yearly average, 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.23 ppm, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.19ppm

Highest sample; found in 2 of 2

2026, one sample: 0.18 ppm

The highest sample, in 2025, was 0.19 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.18 ppm.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Fluoride, nitrate, arsenic and chromium (total) results here are Massachusetts’s own from 2025 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Bartows Mobile Home Park’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Massachusetts’s results run from March 31, 2025 to Feb. 16, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Bartows Mobile Home Park’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Massachusetts certifies.

The 3 labs Massachusetts certifies closest to the area Bartows Mobile Home Park serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Microbac Laboratories Inc.

    Lee, MA · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 776-5025

  • Vallid Labs Inc.

    Agawam, MA · about 27 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 789-2206

  • Howard Laboratories LLC

    South Deerfield, MA · about 31 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 247-5533

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

Sources

PWSID MA1225038. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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