Bishops Landing Condominiums, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.8 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 Bishops Landing Condominiums
Bishops Landing Condominiums serves about 50 people through 4 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA4285007; phone on file: 7813414018. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 4.7 ppb from 9.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bishops Landing Condominiums is 9.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 9.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 8 ppb |
How Bishops Landing Condominiums 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. Bishops Landing Condominiums's 4.8 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Massachusetts and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Norfolk County
38 other systems share Norfolk County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bishops Landing Condominiums. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tri Town Water Board | 856,000 | - |
| Quincy Water Dept. (Mwra) | 106,000 | 14.4 ppb |
| Brookline Water And Sewer Division | 63,191 | 2 ppb |
| Weymouth Water Department | 57,871 | 1.2 ppb |
| Randolph/Holbrook Joint Water Board | 46,519 | - |
| Dedham Westwood Water Dist. | 41,630 | 2 ppb |
| Braintree Water And Sewer Dept. | 39,143 | 4.8 ppb |
| Randolph Water Department | 35,114 | 3 ppb |
| Franklin Water Department | 33,706 | 5 ppb |
| Needham Water Dept | 31,664 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Duxbury, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Duxbury, 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 Bishops Landing Condominiums 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.