Rockwood Meadows, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.5 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.
Rockwood Meadows at a glance
Rockwood Meadows serves about 110 people through 63 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: MA2303004; phone on file: 6172211000. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4 ppb from 1.5 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rockwood Meadows is 5.5 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1 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. Rockwood Meadows's 5.5 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Massachusetts and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Worcester County
107 other systems share Worcester County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rockwood Meadows. 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 Rockwood Meadows 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.