Dragon Hill Condominiums, MA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2018-2020). 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
Dragon Hill Condominiums serves about 30 people through 15 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Franklin County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1268011; phone on file: 4134893111. 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 down 1.2 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dragon Hill Condominiums is 1.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Dragon Hill Condominiums's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 1st percentile in Massachusetts and the 1st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
24 other systems share Franklin County; 22 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dragon Hill Condominiums. 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) |
Next steps for Shelburne, MA
Look up your address in Dragon Hill Condominiums'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 Dragon Hill Condominiums 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.