Four Mile Village, MA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Four Mile Village at a glance
Four Mile Village serves about 133 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Essex County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA3038001; phone on file: 9788878941. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Four Mile Village's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Four Mile Village is 32.8 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 9 ppb |
| 2019 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 32.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 7.1 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. Four Mile Village's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Massachusetts and the 12th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Essex County
36 other systems share Essex County; 22 of them have a higher latest lead result than Four Mile Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lynn Water And Sewer Comm | 101,253 | 2.4 ppb |
| Salem And Beverly Water Supply Board | 90,330 | 1.7 ppb |
| Lawrence Water Works | 89,143 | 0 (not detected) |
| Haverhill Water Dept | 61,277 | 0 (not detected) |
| Peabody Water Dept. | 54,481 | 4.18 ppb |
| Methuen Water Dept | 53,059 | 1.6 ppb |
| Beverly Water Dept | 47,461 | - |
| Salem Water Department | 44,480 | - |
| Gloucester Public Utility Division | 37,440 | 3 ppb |
| Andover Water Dept | 36,569 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Boxford, 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 Four Mile Village 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.