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Is Orleans, MA tap water safe?

Orleans Water Department serves Orleans, 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

Orleans Water Department serves Orleans. In EPA’s and Massachusetts’s records it has nothing above a health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

That data covers what its report lists, not everything.

The water from Orleans Water Department is soft, typically 19 mg/L (1.1 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.

Water testing near Orleans

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

  • Barnstable County Health & Env Dept

    Barnstable, MA · about 18 miles

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

    (508) 375-6605

  • Envirotech Laboratories Inc.

    Sandwich, MA · about 26 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (508) 888-6460

  • Eurofins Providence (AB)

    Middleborough, MA · about 47 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (508) 946-2225

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

ZIP codes in Orleans

Which ZIP codes are in Orleans: 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 Orleans

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

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