Pembroke Water Division Dpw, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Pembroke Water Division Dpw
Pembroke Water Division Dpw serves about 18,175 people through 6,381 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA4231000; phone on file: 7817091425. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pembroke Water Division Dpw is 6 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2024 | 5 ppb |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 6 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
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. Pembroke Water Division Dpw's 3 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Massachusetts and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
44 other systems share Plymouth County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pembroke Water Division Dpw. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brockton Water Department | 105,788 | 4 ppb |
| Plymouth Water Department | 47,100 | 2.5 ppb |
| Weir River Water System | 45,339 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marshfield Water Department | 34,000 | 4 ppb |
| Abington/Rockland Joint Wtr. Works | 33,387 | 4 ppb |
| Mattapoisett River Valley W.D. | 29,600 | - |
| Bridgewater Water Department | 28,633 | 3 ppb |
| Wareham Fire District | 20,102 | 2 ppb |
| Scituate Water Division | 19,297 | 2 ppb |
| Duxbury Water Department | 16,387 | 4.4 ppb |
Next steps for Pembroke, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pembroke, 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 Pembroke Water Division Dpw 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.