122 Main Street, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.7 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
122 Main Street serves about 30 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Franklin County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1053033; phone on file: 5088030109. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (2.15 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for 122 Main Street is 5.15 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.15 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.55 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.15 ppb |
How 122 Main Street compares
Of the 535 Massachusetts systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.7 ppb; 13 are over 15 ppb right now and 66 have gone over at some point. 122 Main Street's 2.7 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Massachusetts and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
24 other systems share Franklin County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than 122 Main Street. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greenfield Water Department | 17,768 | 3.32 ppb |
| Turners Falls Water Dept | 8,080 | 1.9 ppb |
| Orange Water Dept | 6,526 | 2.6 ppb |
| South Deerfield Water Supply District | 3,800 | 3 ppb |
| Sunderland Water District | 3,190 | 3.9 ppb |
| Shelburne Falls Fire District | 1,806 | 2.8 ppb |
| Bernardston Fire Water Dist | 1,471 | 1.3 ppb |
| Deerfield Fire District | 1,300 | 1.4 ppb |
| Whately Water Department | 900 | 1.5 ppb |
| Northfield Water District | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Gardner, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gardner, MA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask 122 Main Street whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.