Community Water System · PWSID MA4264000

Scituate Water Division

Serves 19,297 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentScituate, Massachusetts
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On record since 1996: 23 violations. 4 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 16 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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

4Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
16Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 93% 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

1996 · Treatment lapse: 120002005201020152018 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Over the limit: 120202021 · Over the limit: 12023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Over the limit: 12024 · 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
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
17% over the limit · 49% treatment lapse · 270% missed or late test · 164% 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 13 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5 ppb
4 ppb
4 ppb
3 ppb
3 ppb
3 ppb
3 ppb
2.5 ppb
2.5 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AveragePeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-01LeadMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AveragePeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AveragePeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2020-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AveragePeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2018-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 1996-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationBack in compliance

System details

Population served19,297
Service connections8,397
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityScituate
EPA ZIP on file02066

Areas served

  • Scituate, Plymouth County, 02066

Reading this record

Scituate Water Division is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 19,297 people in Scituate, 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.