Community Water System · PWSID MA1063003

Briggsville Water District

Serves 180 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentClarksburg, Massachusetts
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 2013: 3 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 2 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2016-04-21.

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
2Missed or late test1 open
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

200520102013 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
33% treatment lapse · 167% missed or late test · 2

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.7 ppb
1.5 ppb
0.92 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2013-06-24E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2016-04-21DBP Stage 1Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2016-04-21DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  3. 2013-06-24E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

System details

Population served180
Service connections63
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityClarksburg
EPA ZIP on file01247

Areas served

  • Clarksburg, Berkshire County, 01247

Reading this record

Briggsville Water District is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 180 people in Clarksburg, 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.