Colrain Fire District #1, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.6 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. 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.
Colrain Fire District #1 at a glance
Colrain Fire District #1 serves about 100 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Franklin County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1066000; phone on file: 4136248833. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 7.6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Colrain Fire District #1 is 7.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.7 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. Colrain Fire District #1's 7.6 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Massachusetts and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
24 other systems share Franklin County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Colrain Fire District #1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greenfield Water Department | 17,768 | 3.32 ppb |
| Turners Falls Water Dept | 8,080 | 1.9 ppb |
| Orange Water Dept | 6,526 | 2.6 ppb |
| South Deerfield Water Supply District | 3,800 | 3 ppb |
| Sunderland Water District | 3,190 | 3.9 ppb |
| Shelburne Falls Fire District | 1,806 | 2.8 ppb |
| Bernardston Fire Water Dist | 1,471 | 1.3 ppb |
| Deerfield Fire District | 1,300 | 1.4 ppb |
| Whately Water Department | 900 | 1.5 ppb |
| Northfield Water District | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Colrain, 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 Colrain Fire District #1 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.