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Bondsville Fire and Water District

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

Serves
1,429 people
Connections
420
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Palmer, MA
County
Hampden
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

01009

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit, and 1 more is above the health goal. The worst: Copper, above the action level. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2020.

Nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), chromium (total), arsenic and fluoride: Massachusetts’s own results, samples taken from Oct. 26, 2020 to Aug. 20, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the legal limit1

Copper

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

2.1ppm

90th percentile, 2018 to 2020

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 2.1 ppm, above EPA’s action level of 1.3 ppm.

What handles it

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

1.3ppb

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.3 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.3ppm

Highest sample; found in 12 of 12

2025 average: 0.8 ppm

The highest sample, in 2022, was 2.3 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.8 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 4.8 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

9.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2026

2026: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 9.8 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 19.7 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

9.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2026

2026, one sample: 4.8 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 9.7 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 17 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 4.8 ppb.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.8 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. Its highest single sample was 2.9 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Fluoride

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claims: Copper Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: Copper, Lead

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Copper Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: Copper, Lead

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Violations since 2016

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

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), chromium (total), arsenic and fluoride results here are Massachusetts’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Bondsville Fire and Water District’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 Oct. 26, 2020 to Aug. 20, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Bondsville Fire and Water District’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 Bondsville Fire and Water District serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Quabbin Analytical Laboratory

    Belchertown, MA · about 6 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 323-7134

  • Pace Analytical LLC-East Longmeadow

    East Longmeadow, MA · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS

    (413) 525-2332

  • Vallid Labs Inc.

    Agawam, MA · about 18 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 789-2206

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

Sources

PWSID MA1227002. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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