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Is Northborough, MA tap water safe?

Northborough Water Department (MWRA) serves Northborough, 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

Northborough Water Department (MWRA) serves Northborough. 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 0.95 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Northborough Water Department (MWRA) is soft, typically 16 mg/L (0.9 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 Northborough Water Department (MWRA)’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Northborough

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 Northborough, 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 4 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (508) 898-9220

  • Eurofins-Worcester

    Worcester, MA · about 8 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (401) 461-7181

  • Proverde Environmental, Inc.

    Milford, MA · about 13 miles

    Certified for PFAS

    (617) 221-3356

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

ZIP codes in Northborough

Which ZIP codes are in Northborough: 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 Northborough

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

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