South Hadley Fire District #2 Water Dept, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.3 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 South Hadley Fire District #2 Water Dept
South Hadley Fire District #2 Water Dept serves about 6,200 people through 1,570 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1275001; phone on file: 4135329210. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.7 ppb from 3.6 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Hadley Fire District #2 Water Dept is 5.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.7 ppb |
How South Hadley Fire District #2 Water Dept 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. South Hadley Fire District #2 Water Dept's 5.3 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Massachusetts and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Hampshire County
27 other systems share Hampshire County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Hadley Fire District #2 Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Amherst Dpw Water Division | 39,263 | 8 ppb |
| Northampton Water Division | 29,571 | 1.2 ppb |
| Easthampton Water Dept | 16,211 | 2.5 ppb |
| South Hadley Fd #1 (Mwra) | 14,800 | 4 ppb |
| Ware Water Dept | 10,066 | 4.7 ppb |
| Southampton Water Dept | 4,853 | 4.1 ppb |
| Hadley Dpw Water Division | 4,819 | 4.6 ppb |
| Belchertown Water District | 3,253 | 3 ppb |
| Hatfield Water Dept | 3,164 | 23.1 ppb |
| Huntington Water Dept | 2,180 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; South Hadley, 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 South Hadley Fire District #2 Water Dept 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.