Holmes Park Water District, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Holmes Park Water District serves about 131 people through 49 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Worcester County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA2332001; phone on file: 9786327707. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 3.5 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Holmes Park Water District is 5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
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. Holmes Park Water District's 1.5 ppb sits at the 44th percentile in Massachusetts and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
107 other systems share Worcester County; 54 of them have a higher latest lead result than Holmes Park Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Worcester Dpwp, Water Supply Division | 206,518 | 2 ppb |
| Fitchburg Dpw Division Of Water Supply | 41,946 | 5 ppb |
| Leominster Water Division | 41,683 | 2.8 ppb |
| Shrewsbury Water Department | 38,325 | 0 (not detected) |
| Milford Water Department | 30,379 | 1 ppb |
| Westborough Water Department | 21,567 | 1.8 ppb |
| Gardner Water Department | 21,381 | 8 ppb |
| Southbridge Water Department | 19,562 | 3 ppb |
| Holden Water Division, Dpw | 18,016 | 3.1 ppb |
| Webster Water Department | 17,776 | 3.7 ppb |
Next steps for Westminster, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Westminster, 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 Holmes Park Water District 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.