Centre Village Apartments, MA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
About Centre Village Apartments
Centre Village Apartments serves about 36 people through 3 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA2037006; phone on file: 9787726005. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.5 ppb from 0.5 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Centre Village Apartments is 45 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 5 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 45 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 13.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 0.55 ppb |
Against other Massachusetts systems
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. Centre Village Apartments's 2 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Massachusetts and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
94 other systems share Middlesex County; 40 of them have a higher latest lead result than Centre Village Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lowell Regional Water Utility | 120,418 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cambridge Water Department | 118,214 | 8 ppb |
| Newton Water Dept. (Mwra) | 88,931 | 1.09 ppb |
| Somerville Water Dept. (Mwra) | 81,045 | 6.62 ppb |
| Framingham Water Dept. (Mwra) | 72,362 | 1.74 ppb |
| Malden Water Division (Mwra) | 66,263 | 9.74 ppb |
| Waltham Water Department | 65,218 | 2.24 ppb |
| Medford Water Dept. (Mwra) | 61,700 | 8.31 ppb |
| Everett Water Dept. (Mwra) | 49,075 | 1.25 ppb |
| Arlington Water Dept. (Mwra) | 46,308 | 2.68 ppb |
Next steps for Harvard, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Harvard, 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 Centre Village Apartments 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.