Pond Ridge Condo Assn, MA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.2 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Pond Ridge Condo Assn at a glance
Pond Ridge Condo Assn serves about 88 people through 30 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Franklin County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1289002; phone on file: 4133978803. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 9.6 ppb from 0.6 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pond Ridge Condo Assn is 10.2 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Pond Ridge Condo Assn 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. Pond Ridge Condo Assn's 10.2 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Massachusetts and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Franklin County
24 other systems share Franklin County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pond Ridge Condo Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greenfield Water Department | 17,768 | 3.32 ppb |
| Turners Falls Water Dept | 8,080 | 1.9 ppb |
| Orange Water Dept | 6,526 | 2.6 ppb |
| South Deerfield Water Supply District | 3,800 | 3 ppb |
| Sunderland Water District | 3,190 | 3.9 ppb |
| Shelburne Falls Fire District | 1,806 | 2.8 ppb |
| Bernardston Fire Water Dist | 1,471 | 1.3 ppb |
| Deerfield Fire District | 1,300 | 1.4 ppb |
| Whately Water Department | 900 | 1.5 ppb |
| Northfield Water District | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Sunderland, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sunderland, 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 Pond Ridge Condo Assn 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.