Heron Pond At Stockbridge, MA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.3 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Heron Pond At Stockbridge serves about 50 people through 9 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1283017; phone on file: 6047619428. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Heron Pond At Stockbridge's lead record
That is up 2.4 ppb from 3.9 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heron Pond At Stockbridge is 29.9 ppb across 15 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 6 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.65 ppb |
| 2021 | 11.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 7.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 7.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.95 ppb |
| 2019 | 13.6 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 29.9 ppb over 15 |
How Heron Pond At Stockbridge 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. Heron Pond At Stockbridge's 6.3 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Massachusetts and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
37 other systems share Berkshire County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heron Pond At Stockbridge. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pittsfield Dpu Water Dept | 43,927 | 2.4 ppb |
| North Adams Water Dept | 13,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lenox Dpw Water Division | 9,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Adams Fire District | 7,945 | 0 (not detected) |
| Williamstown Water Dept | 7,326 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dalton Fire District | 6,330 | 1.15 ppb |
| Lee Water Dept | 5,686 | 1.1 ppb |
| Great Barrington Fire Dist | 4,380 | 5.3 ppb |
| Stockbridge Water Dept | 2,800 | 5 ppb |
| Lanesborough Fire And Water District | 2,342 | 2.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stockbridge, 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 Heron Pond At Stockbridge 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.