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Is Wakefield, MA tap water safe?

Wakefield Water Dept serves Wakefield, 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

Wakefield Water Dept serves Wakefield. In EPA’s and Massachusetts’s records it has 1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 2 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOA at 6.9 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

The water from Wakefield Water Dept is moderately hard, 61 mg/L (3.6 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 Wakefield Water Dept’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Wakefield

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

  • Eurofins Danvers

    Danvers, MA · about 8 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (978) 777-4442

  • New England Chromachem Inc.

    Salem, MA · about 10 miles

    Certified for organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS

    (978) 744-6600

  • Mass DPH Environmental Chemistry Lab

    Jamaica Plain, MA · about 13 miles

    Certified for lead and copper, metals

    (617) 983-6654

All 81 certified labs for Massachusetts

ZIP codes in Wakefield

Which ZIP codes are in Wakefield: 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 Wakefield

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

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