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Jakes Path PWS

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
168 people
Connections
15
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Middleborough, MA
County
Plymouth
Owner
Private
Hardness
Moderately hard
The ZIP code it serves

02346

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. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What was found

Fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and nitrate: Massachusetts’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 30, 2025 to Aug. 3, 2026.

Below EPA’s limits1

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.11ppm

Highest yearly average, 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.11 ppm, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Nitrate

Hardness

Moderately hard, 76 mg/L (4.4 grains per gallon), at its one sampling point, in 2025.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

Softeners compared at 4.4 grains per gallon, salt includedSoftener or salt-free conditioner?Massachusetts water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Revised Total Coliform RuleE. coli was confirmed in the water system.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, E. coli (RTCR)Aug. 1, 2025 to Aug. 31, 2025—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 1 monitoring or reporting violation not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and nitrate results here are Massachusetts’s own from 2025 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Jakes Path PWS’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 Sept. 30, 2025 to Aug. 3, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Jakes Path PWS’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 Jakes Path PWS serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Eurofins Providence (AB)

    Middleborough, MA · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (508) 946-2225

  • New Bedford Health Department Lab

    New Bedford, MA · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (508) 991-6199

  • Battelle Memorial Institute

    Norwell, MA · about 20 miles

    Certified for PFAS

    (781) 681-6635

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

Sources

PWSID MA4182018. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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