BRAINTREE WATER AND SEWER DEPT.: EPA violation history, explained

BRAINTREE WATER AND SEWER DEPT. has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 39,143, over 12,167 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

78 total violations and 1 health-based ones put BRAINTREE WATER AND SEWER DEPT. at the 43th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,306 of 12,903.

Against the MA average

Among the 283 MA systems in this dataset, the average is 7.0 health-based violations - BRAINTREE WATER AND SEWER DEPT.'s 1 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

BRAINTREE WATER AND SEWER DEPT.'s most recent violation on record is dated 2025-02-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2000-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.

The concern categories on record

BRAINTREE WATER AND SEWER DEPT.'s flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:

• Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)

The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What BRAINTREE WATER AND SEWER DEPT.'s record does not cover

Everything on this page is BRAINTREE WATER AND SEWER DEPT.'s own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 78 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.