The Village At Shepley Hill, MA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2022). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
The Village At Shepley Hill at a glance
The Village At Shepley Hill serves about 52 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA2115012; phone on file: 6178342556. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2019 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Village At Shepley Hill is 0.85 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0.85 ppb |
How The Village At Shepley Hill 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. The Village At Shepley Hill's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 4th percentile in Massachusetts and the 4th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Middlesex County
94 other systems share Middlesex County; 72 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Village At Shepley Hill. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lowell Regional Water Utility | 120,418 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cambridge Water Department | 118,214 | 8 ppb |
| Newton Water Dept. (Mwra) | 88,931 | 1.09 ppb |
| Somerville Water Dept. (Mwra) | 81,045 | 6.62 ppb |
| Framingham Water Dept. (Mwra) | 72,362 | 1.74 ppb |
| Malden Water Division (Mwra) | 66,263 | 9.74 ppb |
| Waltham Water Department | 65,218 | 2.24 ppb |
| Medford Water Dept. (Mwra) | 61,700 | 8.31 ppb |
| Everett Water Dept. (Mwra) | 49,075 | 1.25 ppb |
| Arlington Water Dept. (Mwra) | 46,308 | 2.68 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in The Village At Shepley Hill's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask The Village At Shepley Hill 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.