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Breton Estates

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
48 people
Connections
2
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Palmer, MA
County
Hampden
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

01069

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, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Nitrate: Massachusetts’s own results, samples taken from Oct. 24, 2023 to Oct. 14, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits1

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.16ppm

Highest sample; found in 5 of 6

2025 average: 0.065 ppm

The highest sample, in 2024, was 0.16 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.065 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.3 ppm, in 2016.

What handles it

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

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 2 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate results here are Massachusetts’s own from 2023 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Breton Estates’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. 24, 2023 to Oct. 14, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Breton Estates’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 Breton Estates 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 8 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 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 789-2206

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

Sources

PWSID MA1227015. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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