Bondsville Fire And Water District, MA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.8 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.
Bondsville Fire And Water District at a glance
Bondsville Fire And Water District serves about 1,429 people through 420 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Hampden County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1227002; phone on file: 4132831627. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Bondsville Fire And Water District's lead record
That is up 4.8 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bondsville Fire And Water District is 190 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 190 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 2.8 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. Bondsville Fire And Water District's 4.8 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Massachusetts and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share Hampden County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bondsville Fire And Water District. 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 Bondsville, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bondsville, 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 Bondsville Fire And Water District whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2100 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.