Community Water System · PWSID MA3031000

Billerica Water Works

Serves 42,119 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentBillerica, Massachusetts
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On record since 2022: 3 violations. 3 over the limit. Most recent began 2023-04-01.

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

3Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 57% 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

20052010201520202022 · Over the limit: 12023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% over the limit · 3

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3 ppb
2.4 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-04-01BromateMCL, AverageBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-01BromateMCL, AveragePeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2022-10-01BromateMCL, AveragePeriod ended · no return to compliance on file

System details

Population served42,119
Service connections13,758
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBillerica
EPA ZIP on file01862

Areas served

  • Billerica, Middlesex County, 01862

Reading this record

Billerica Water Works is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 42,119 people in Billerica, 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.