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Is Holyoke, MA tap water safe?

Holyoke Water Works serves Holyoke, 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

Holyoke Water Works serves Holyoke. In EPA’s and Massachusetts’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 9.0 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Holyoke Water Works is soft, typically 14 mg/L (0.8 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 Holyoke Water Works’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Holyoke

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

  • Vallid Labs Inc.

    Agawam, MA · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 789-2206

  • Pace Analytical LLC-East Longmeadow

    East Longmeadow, MA · about 13 miles

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

    (413) 525-2332

  • Quabbin Analytical Laboratory

    Belchertown, MA · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 323-7134

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

ZIP codes in Holyoke

Which ZIP codes are in Holyoke: 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 Holyoke

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

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