Jiminy Peak Resort, MA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.7 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.
Jiminy Peak Resort at a glance
Jiminy Peak Resort serves about 1,000 people through 190 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1121004; phone on file: 4137385500. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (5.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Jiminy Peak Resort is 47 ppb across 15 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 11.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 8.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 6 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 32.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 47 ppb over 15 |
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. Jiminy Peak Resort's 4.7 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Massachusetts and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
37 other systems share Berkshire County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Jiminy Peak Resort. 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hancock, 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 Jiminy Peak Resort 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.