Three Rivers Fire District, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.4 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Three Rivers Fire District at a glance
Three Rivers Fire District serves about 3,258 people through 926 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Hampden County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1227003; phone on file: 4132839284. 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 3.8 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Three Rivers Fire District is 5.4 ppb across 15 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.7 ppb |
Against other Massachusetts systems
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. Three Rivers Fire District's 5.4 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Massachusetts and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Hampden County
26 other systems share Hampden County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Three Rivers Fire District. 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 Three Rivers, MA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Three Rivers, 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 Three Rivers Fire District 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.