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Is Gloucester, MA tap water safe?

Gloucester Public Utility Division serves Gloucester, 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

Gloucester Public Utility Division serves Gloucester. In EPA’s and Massachusetts’s records it has 2 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 3.0 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Gloucester Public Utility Division is soft, typically 18 mg/L (1 grain 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 Gloucester Public Utility Division’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Gloucester

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 Gloucester, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Biomarine Inc.

    Gloucester, MA · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria

    (978) 281-0222

  • New England Chromachem Inc.

    Salem, MA · about 12 miles

    Certified for organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS

    (978) 744-6600

  • Eurofins Danvers

    Danvers, MA · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (978) 777-4442

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

ZIP codes in Gloucester

Which ZIP codes are in Gloucester: 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 Gloucester

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

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