Century Mill Estates, MA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12.5 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Century Mill Estates at a glance
Century Mill Estates serves about 135 people through 78 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: MA2034031; phone on file: 5083263560. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Century Mill Estates's lead record
That is up 12.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Century Mill Estates is 12.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 12.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Century Mill Estates's 12.5 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Massachusetts and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Worcester County
107 other systems share Worcester County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Century Mill Estates. 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
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bolton, 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 Century Mill Estates 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.