Glen Ridge Residents Trust, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 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. 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.
Glen Ridge Residents Trust at a glance
Glen Ridge Residents Trust serves about 131 people through 44 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA3078002; phone on file: 3392354154. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Glen Ridge Residents Trust is 2.5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
How Glen Ridge Residents Trust 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. Glen Ridge Residents Trust's 2.5 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Massachusetts and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Norfolk County
38 other systems share Norfolk County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Glen Ridge Residents Trust. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tri Town Water Board | 856,000 | - |
| Quincy Water Dept. (Mwra) | 106,000 | 14.4 ppb |
| Brookline Water And Sewer Division | 63,191 | 2 ppb |
| Weymouth Water Department | 57,871 | 1.2 ppb |
| Randolph/Holbrook Joint Water Board | 46,519 | - |
| Dedham Westwood Water Dist. | 41,630 | 2 ppb |
| Braintree Water And Sewer Dept. | 39,143 | 4.8 ppb |
| Randolph Water Department | 35,114 | 3 ppb |
| Franklin Water Department | 33,706 | 5 ppb |
| Needham Water Dept | 31,664 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Dover, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dover, 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 Glen Ridge Residents Trust 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.