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Is Springfield, MA tap water safe?

Springfield Water and Sewer Commission serves Springfield, 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

Springfield Water and Sewer Commission serves Springfield. In EPA’s and Massachusetts’s records it has 2 results above the legal limit and 1 result above the health goal, and 33 health-based violations since 2016.

The worst: Haloacetic acids (HAA5) at 77.9 ppb, above the legal limit.

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 Springfield Water and Sewer Commission’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Springfield

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

  • Pace Analytical LLC-East Longmeadow

    East Longmeadow, MA · about 4 miles

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

    (413) 525-2332

  • Vallid Labs Inc.

    Agawam, MA · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 789-2206

  • Quabbin Analytical Laboratory

    Belchertown, MA · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 323-7134

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

ZIP codes in Springfield

Which ZIP codes are in Springfield: 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 Springfield

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

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