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Pan Am Southern Railroad

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
120 people
Connections
10
Water source
Surface water bought from another system
Based in
Deerfield, MA
County
Franklin
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

01342

The short answer

2 results are above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Lead, 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 2022 to 2026.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Massachusetts’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 16, 2022 to Aug. 5, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the legal limit2

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

32.9ppb

90th percentile, 2026

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 32.9 ppb, above EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027, and this result is at or above that. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Copper

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

1.4ppm

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.4 ppm, above EPA’s action level of 1.3 ppm.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

36ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2026

2026, one sample: 6.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 36 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 6.4 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 30 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

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

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

12ppb

Highest yearly average, 2023 to 2026

2026: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 12 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.7 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

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: Lead Reduction, Copper Reduction

    For: Lead, Copper

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Lead Reduction, Copper Reduction

    For: Lead, Copper

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 10 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Massachusetts’s own from 2022 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Pan Am Southern Railroad’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 Aug. 16, 2022 to Aug. 5, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Pan Am Southern Railroad’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 Pan Am Southern Railroad serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Howard Laboratories LLC

    South Deerfield, MA · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 247-5533

  • Quabbin Analytical Laboratory

    Belchertown, MA · about 21 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 323-7134

  • Nelson Analytical Lab-Keene

    North Swanzey, NH · about 33 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (603) 357-2577

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

Sources

PWSID MA1074007. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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