Blandford Water Dept, MA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Blandford Water Dept at a glance
Blandford Water Dept serves about 442 people through 238 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Hampden County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1033000; phone on file: 4138482405. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (2.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blandford Water Dept is 78.2 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 6 ppb |
| 2022 | 7.54 ppb |
| 2020 | 78.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 0.54 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 12.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 9.4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Blandford Water Dept's 2.6 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Massachusetts and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share Hampden County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blandford Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Springfield Water And Sewer Commission | 169,170 | 3.5 ppb |
| Chicopee Water Dept (Mwra) | 55,560 | 1.5 ppb |
| Westfield Dpwwater Division | 41,094 | 2.7 ppb |
| Holyoke Water Works | 37,838 | 9 ppb |
| West Springfield Dpw Water Division | 28,835 | 1.6 ppb |
| Agawam Water Department | 28,692 | 1.5 ppb |
| East Longmeadow Dpw Water Dept | 16,358 | 1.4 ppb |
| Longmeadow Water Dept | 15,853 | 1.8 ppb |
| Wilbraham Water Dept (Mwra) | 8,533 | 5.63 ppb |
| Southwick Water Dept | 7,669 | 2.6 ppb |
Next steps for Blandford, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Blandford, 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 Blandford Water Dept 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.