Hubbardston House Apartments, MA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 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. 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
Hubbardston House Apartments serves about 40 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Worcester County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA2140010; phone on file: 9789285922. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 9.5 ppb from 11.2 ppb in the period ending 2026. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hubbardston House Apartments is 30.9 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2026 | 11.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2025 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2025 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 30.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 19.1 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Hubbardston House Apartments's 1.7 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Massachusetts and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Worcester County
107 other systems share Worcester County; 50 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hubbardston House Apartments. 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 Worcester, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Worcester, 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 Hubbardston House Apartments whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 5230 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.