Drinking water quality · 2024

· Verified

· PWSID MA4044000

What's in Brockton, MA tap water

C
Water quality score
80/ 100Limited data

Only 9 of 27 core regulated contaminants were reported for Brockton, MA. What was measured is clean — but most of the picture is missing.

  • !1 contaminant within 20% of a limit
  • !9 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 18 never appear in this report
  • Nothing over a federal limit
  • No open federal violations
+How this score is calculated

Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.

  • 0  contaminants at or above a federal limit
  • 4  contaminants within 20% of a limit
  • 0  open health-based violations
  • 0  open monitoring / reporting violations
  • 0  health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
  • 16  core regulated contaminants never reported (9/27)

A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.

Full grading methodology, constant for constant →

What to worry about

  • TTHM85% of the federal limit
    17–68 ug/L · limit 80 ug/L

    Long-term exposure above the federal limit is linked to liver, kidney, and central-nervous-system effects and increased cancer risk.

    higher than 85% of U.S. systems

+11 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
ContaminantMeasured
HAA52.3–29 ug/L
Chlorine0.48–1.35 mg/L
Lead4 ug/L
Turbidity0.09 NTU
Copper0.045 mg/L
Nitrate0.18 mg/L
Barium0.008 mg/L
Perchlorate0.13 ug/L
Sodium27 mg/L
PFAS2.2 ng/L
TOC2.077

What this report doesn't tell you

18 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Brockton, MA's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.

ArsenicFluorideColiform bacteriaChromiumSeleniumAntimonyCadmiumMercuryThalliumBerylliumCyanideRadiumGross alpha radiationUraniumAtrazine / simazineTetrachloroethylene (PCE)Trichloroethylene (TCE)Benzene
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+Full detail: PFAS testing, water source, historical monitoring, and the federal violation record

Where your water comes from · EPA SDWIS

Brockton, MA's drinking water comes from surface water, drawn from 3 sources.

Source

3surface water
  • BROCKTON RES.
  • HUBBARD AV. WELL
  • SILVER LAKE

Treatment

4treatment plants
  • BROCKTON WATER TREATMENT PLANT
  • SILVER LAKE WATER TREATMENT PLANT
  • TWINS TANKS
  • + 1 more

Distribution

4storage units

Also buys water from INIMA USA / AQUARIA LLC.

Compliance history

Federal Safe Drinking Water Act violation & enforcement records (EPA SDWIS). A violation is a regulatory determination by the state or EPA — separate from the measured levels above.

  • Maximum contaminant level exceededHealth-based
    5 violations on record · most recent Apr 2018
    resolved

Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗

Source: Brockton, MA's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report — the annual drinking-water report every U.S. utility is required to publish. The numbers on this page are the utility's own. A water-quality report covers an entire service area, not a single address.
The grade at the top of this page is computed, not editorial. See exactly how we grade water systems — every deduction, every ceiling, every threshold.

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