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Is Turners Falls, MA tap water safe?

Turners Falls Water Dept serves Turners Falls, 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

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

The worst: Arsenic at 0.5 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Turners Falls Water Dept is soft to moderately hard depending on the source, 26 to 110 mg/L (1.5 to 6.4 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 Turners Falls Water Dept’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Turners Falls

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

  • Howard Laboratories LLC

    South Deerfield, MA · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 247-5533

  • Quabbin Analytical Laboratory

    Belchertown, MA · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (413) 323-7134

  • Nelson Analytical Lab-Keene

    North Swanzey, NH · about 29 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (603) 357-2577

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

ZIP codes in Turners Falls

Which ZIP codes are in Turners Falls: 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 Turners Falls

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

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