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White Birch Garden Apartments

What EPA’s and Massachusetts’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
25 people
Connections
2
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Hampden, MA
County
Hampden
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

01036

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Arsenic, nitrate, fluoride and chromium (total): Massachusetts’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 12, 2020 to July 22, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.45ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.45 ppb, in 2023: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. Its highest single sample was 0.9 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Below EPA’s limits2

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.3ppm

Highest sample; found in 11 of 11

2026 average: 1.9 ppm

The highest sample, in 2021, was 2.3 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 1.9 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 4.5 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.76ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 0.42 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.76 ppm, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 0.79 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.42 ppm.

What handles it

2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, nitrate, fluoride and chromium (total) results here are Massachusetts’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. White Birch Garden Apartments’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Massachusetts’s results run from Aug. 12, 2020 to July 22, 2026.

Testing your own tap

White Birch Garden Apartments’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Massachusetts certifies.

The 3 labs Massachusetts certifies closest to the area White Birch Garden Apartments serves, 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 11 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

Sources

PWSID MA1120015. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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