Silver Meadow, MA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 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
Silver Meadow serves about 25 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hampden County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1306006; phone on file: 4137851251. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.1 ppb from 1.1 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Silver Meadow is 21 ppb across 18 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.45 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.05 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.05 ppb |
| 2019 | 11.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 5 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0.95 ppb |
| 2016 | 16.5 ppb over 15 |
How Silver Meadow 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. Silver Meadow's 2.2 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Massachusetts and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share Hampden County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Silver Meadow. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Springfield Water And Sewer Commission | 169,170 | 3.5 ppb |
| Chicopee Water Dept (Mwra) | 55,560 | 1.5 ppb |
| Westfield Dpwwater Division | 41,094 | 2.7 ppb |
| Holyoke Water Works | 37,838 | 9 ppb |
| West Springfield Dpw Water Division | 28,835 | 1.6 ppb |
| Agawam Water Department | 28,692 | 1.5 ppb |
| East Longmeadow Dpw Water Dept | 16,358 | 1.4 ppb |
| Longmeadow Water Dept | 15,853 | 1.8 ppb |
| Wilbraham Water Dept (Mwra) | 8,533 | 5.63 ppb |
| Southwick Water Dept | 7,669 | 2.6 ppb |
Next steps for Springfield, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Springfield, 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 Silver Meadow 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.