Buffumville Heights Estates Condominium, MA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Buffumville Heights Estates Condominium serves about 40 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Worcester County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA2226008; phone on file: 5089870584. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Buffumville Heights Estates Condominium's lead record
That is down 13.1 ppb from 13.1 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Buffumville Heights Estates Condominium is 13.1 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 13.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 9 ppb |
How Buffumville Heights Estates Condominium 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. Buffumville Heights Estates Condominium's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Massachusetts and the 2nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Worcester County
107 other systems share Worcester County; 75 of them have a higher latest lead result than Buffumville Heights Estates Condominium. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Worcester Dpwp, Water Supply Division | 206,518 | 2 ppb |
| Fitchburg Dpw Division Of Water Supply | 41,946 | 5 ppb |
| Leominster Water Division | 41,683 | 2.8 ppb |
| Shrewsbury Water Department | 38,325 | 0 (not detected) |
| Milford Water Department | 30,379 | 1 ppb |
| Westborough Water Department | 21,567 | 1.8 ppb |
| Gardner Water Department | 21,381 | 8 ppb |
| Southbridge Water Department | 19,562 | 3 ppb |
| Holden Water Division, Dpw | 18,016 | 3.1 ppb |
| Webster Water Department | 17,776 | 3.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Buffumville Heights Estates Condominium's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Buffumville Heights Estates Condominium 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.