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Meadowbrook Village Condominiums

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
150 people
Connections
61
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Berlin, MA
County
Worcester
Owner
Private
Hardness
Hard
The ZIP code it serves

01503

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, arsenic, chromium (total) and fluoride: Massachusetts’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 29, 2020 to Sept. 16, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits1

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.37ppm

Highest sample; found in 7 of 7

2026, one sample: 0.16 ppm

The highest sample, in 2021, was 0.37 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.16 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 1.2 ppm, in 2014.

What handles it

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

Hardness

Hard, typically 137 mg/L (8 grains per gallon), across 2 sampling points, in 2026.

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 8 grains per gallon, salt includedSoftener or salt-free conditioner?Massachusetts water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

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

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and fluoride results here are Massachusetts’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Meadowbrook Village Condominiums’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. 29, 2020 to Sept. 16, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Meadowbrook Village Condominiums’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 Meadowbrook Village Condominiums serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Pace Analytical LLC-Westborough

    Westborough, MA · about 8 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (508) 898-9220

  • Eurofins-Worcester

    Worcester, MA · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (401) 461-7181

  • Eurofins Ayer

    Ayer, MA · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (978) 391-4428

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

Sources

PWSID MA2028012. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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