Stoughton Water Department, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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. 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 Stoughton Water Department
Stoughton Water Department serves about 29,281 people through 8,656 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 surface water, in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA4285000; phone on file: 7813442112. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stoughton Water Department is 13 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 13 ppb over 10 |
How Stoughton Water Department 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. Stoughton Water Department's 2 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Massachusetts and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Norfolk County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stoughton Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tri Town Water Board | 856,000 | - |
| Quincy Water Dept. (Mwra) | 106,000 | 14.4 ppb |
| Brookline Water And Sewer Division | 63,191 | 2 ppb |
| Weymouth Water Department | 57,871 | 1.2 ppb |
| Randolph/Holbrook Joint Water Board | 46,519 | - |
| Dedham Westwood Water Dist. | 41,630 | 2 ppb |
| Braintree Water And Sewer Dept. | 39,143 | 4.8 ppb |
| Randolph Water Department | 35,114 | 3 ppb |
| Franklin Water Department | 33,706 | 5 ppb |
| Needham Water Dept | 31,664 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stoughton, 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 Stoughton Water Department whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1370 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.