Community Water System · PWSID MA2021000

Barre Water Department

Serves 4,098 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentBarre, MassachusettsServes a school or daycare
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1994: 32 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 30 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
30Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% of active water systems in Massachusetts. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1994 · Treatment lapse: 119952000200520102013 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 162024 · Missed or late test: 162024 · Missed or late test: 162024 · Missed or late test: 162024 · Missed or late test: 162024 · Missed or late test: 162024 · Missed or late test: 162024 · Missed or late test: 162025 · Missed or late test: 72025 · Missed or late test: 72025 · Missed or late test: 72025 · Missed or late test: 72025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 194% missed or late test · 303% notice or report · 1

Across Massachusetts, 79% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3.6 ppb
2 ppb
1.8 ppb
1.5 ppb
1.1 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-07-01DBP Stage 1Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-03-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-01-01Groundwater Rule ×4Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-11-01Groundwater Rule ×4Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2024-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2024-07-01Groundwater Rule ×4Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2024-04-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-04-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-01Gross Alpha, Incl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2023-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2023-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2023-07-01DBP Stage 1Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Open
  18. 2023-07-01PerchlorateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2021-06-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  20. 2018-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  21. 2017-08-01PerchlorateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationBack in compliance

System details

Population served4,098
Service connections1,132
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBarre
EPA ZIP on file01005

Areas served

  • Barre, Worcester County, 01005

Reading this record

Barre Water Department is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 4,098 people in Barre, Massachusetts. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.