Worthington Fire District, MA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.6 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Worthington Fire District serves about 565 people through 170 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 Hampshire County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA1349000; phone on file: 4135752457. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 13.9 ppb from 17.5 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Worthington Fire District is 17.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 17.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.4 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. Worthington Fire District's 3.6 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Massachusetts and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Hampshire County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Worthington Fire District. 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 |
| South Hadley Fire District #2 Water Dept | 6,200 | 5.3 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Worthington, 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 Worthington 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.