Granby Heights Condominiums, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2021). 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.
Granby Heights Condominiums at a glance
Granby Heights Condominiums serves about 152 people through 76 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1111003; phone on file: 4137818683. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Granby Heights Condominiums's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Granby Heights Condominiums is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 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. Granby Heights Condominiums's 1 ppb sits at the 31st percentile in Massachusetts and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Hampshire County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Granby Heights Condominiums. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Amherst Dpw Water Division | 39,263 | 8 ppb |
| Northampton Water Division | 29,571 | 1.2 ppb |
| Easthampton Water Dept | 16,211 | 2.5 ppb |
| South Hadley Fd #1 (Mwra) | 14,800 | 4 ppb |
| Ware Water Dept | 10,066 | 4.7 ppb |
| South Hadley Fire District #2 Water Dept | 6,200 | 5.3 ppb |
| Southampton Water Dept | 4,853 | 4.1 ppb |
| Hadley Dpw Water Division | 4,819 | 4.6 ppb |
| Belchertown Water District | 3,253 | 3 ppb |
| Hatfield Water Dept | 3,164 | 23.1 ppb |
Next steps for West Springfield, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; West Springfield, 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 Granby Heights 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.