Community Water System · PWSID MA3128000

Haverhill Water Dept

Serves 63,235 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentHaverhill, 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 2001: 40 violations. 40 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
40Missed or late test1 open
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% 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

2001 · Missed or late test: 12005201020152020 · Missed or late test: 120202025 · Missed or late test: 382025 · Missed or late test: 382025 · Missed or late test: 382025 · Missed or late test: 382025 · Missed or late test: 382025 · Missed or late test: 382025 · Missed or late test: 382025 · Missed or late test: 382025 · Missed or late test: 382025 · Missed or late test: 382025
One square ≈ 4 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% missed or late test · 40

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

3 ppb
2 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2020-06-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01Aroclor 1260Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-01-01Pcb 1262Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-01Aroclor 1254Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-01-01Aroclor 1248Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-01-01Aroclor 1242Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-01-01Aroclor 1232Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-01-01Aroclor 1221Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2025-01-01Aroclor 1016Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2025-01-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2025-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2025-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2025-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2025-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2025-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2025-01-01GlyphosateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2025-01-01EndothallMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2025-01-01DiquatMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2025-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2025-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2025-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2025-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2025-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2025-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2025-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2025-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 15 entries
  1. 2025-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2025-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2025-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2025-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2025-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2025-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2025-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2020-06-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  15. 2001-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served63,235
Service connections17,996
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHaverhill
EPA ZIP on file01830

Areas served

  • Haverhill, Essex County, 01830

Reading this record

Haverhill Water Dept is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 63,235 people in Haverhill, 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.