Cherry Valley/ Rochdale Water District, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Cherry Valley/ Rochdale Water District
Cherry Valley/ Rochdale Water District serves about 3,696 people through 1,249 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Worcester County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA2151001; phone on file: 5088929616. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cherry Valley/ Rochdale Water District's lead record
That is down 1.6 ppb from 4.2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cherry Valley/ Rochdale Water District is 13 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.68 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.4 ppb |
How Cherry Valley/ Rochdale Water District 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. Cherry Valley/ Rochdale Water District's 2.6 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Massachusetts and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Worcester County
107 other systems share Worcester County; 33 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cherry Valley/ Rochdale Water District. 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 |
Next steps for Rochdale, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rochdale, 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 Cherry Valley/ Rochdale Water District 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.