Hawthorne Village, MA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 21 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Hawthorne Village at a glance
Hawthorne Village serves about 55 people through 23 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Grafton County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: NH2032010. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hawthorne Village is 21 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 21 ppb over 15 |
How Hawthorne Village 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. Hawthorne Village's 21 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Massachusetts and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
1 other system shares Grafton County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hawthorne Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jack O Lantern Condos | 98 | - |
Next steps for Southboro, MA
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Hawthorne 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.