Wareham Fire District, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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 Wareham Fire District
Wareham Fire District serves about 20,102 people through 8,604 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 groundwater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA4310000; phone on file: 5082950450. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Wareham Fire District's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wareham Fire District is 4 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Wareham Fire District's 2 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Massachusetts and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
44 other systems share Plymouth County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wareham Fire District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brockton Water Department | 105,788 | 4 ppb |
| Plymouth Water Department | 47,100 | 2.5 ppb |
| Weir River Water System | 45,339 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marshfield Water Department | 34,000 | 4 ppb |
| Abington/Rockland Joint Wtr. Works | 33,387 | 4 ppb |
| Mattapoisett River Valley W.D. | 29,600 | - |
| Bridgewater Water Department | 28,633 | 3 ppb |
| Scituate Water Division | 19,297 | 2 ppb |
| Pembroke Water Division Dpw | 18,175 | 3 ppb |
| Duxbury Water Department | 16,387 | 4.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Parkwood Beach, 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 Wareham 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.