Berkshire Rehab Skilled Care Ctr, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.65 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.
About Berkshire Rehab Skilled Care Ctr
Berkshire Rehab Skilled Care Ctr serves about 100 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 Berkshire County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1260001; phone on file: 4132584731. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.25 ppb from 1.4 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Berkshire Rehab Skilled Care Ctr is 9.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.65 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 9.3 ppb |
How Berkshire Rehab Skilled Care Ctr 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. Berkshire Rehab Skilled Care Ctr's 2.65 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Massachusetts and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Berkshire County
37 other systems share Berkshire County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Berkshire Rehab Skilled Care Ctr. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pittsfield Dpu Water Dept | 43,927 | 2.4 ppb |
| North Adams Water Dept | 13,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lenox Dpw Water Division | 9,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Adams Fire District | 7,945 | 0 (not detected) |
| Williamstown Water Dept | 7,326 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dalton Fire District | 6,330 | 1.15 ppb |
| Lee Water Dept | 5,686 | 1.1 ppb |
| Great Barrington Fire Dist | 4,380 | 5.3 ppb |
| Stockbridge Water Dept | 2,800 | 5 ppb |
| Lanesborough Fire And Water District | 2,342 | 2.2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sandisfield, 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 Berkshire Rehab Skilled Care Ctr 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.