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Is Amherst Town, MA tap water safe?

Amherst DPW Water Division serves Amherst Town, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Massachusetts’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Amherst DPW Water Division serves Amherst Town. In EPA’s and Massachusetts’s records it has 1 result above the limit’s level with no violation recorded and 2 results above the health goal, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Fluoride at 6.8 ppm, above the limit’s level, no violation. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Amherst DPW Water Division is soft to moderately hard depending on the source, 6.9 to 88 mg/L (0.4 to 5.1 grains per gallon). How Massachusetts’s water compares.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Amherst DPW Water Division’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Amherst Town

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Massachusetts certifies.

The 3 labs Massachusetts certifies closest to Amherst Town, 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

  • Howard Laboratories LLC

    South Deerfield, MA · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 247-5533

  • Pace Analytical LLC-East Longmeadow

    East Longmeadow, MA · about 22 miles

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

    (413) 525-2332

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

ZIP codes in Amherst Town

Which ZIP codes are in Amherst Town: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: MassDEP Online Searchable Laboratory Certification Listing, potable water; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Amherst Town

Other towns in Hampshire County with a page of their own.

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