Is DOUGLAS WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
DOUGLAS WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,400 people get their water from it, across 1,251 connections.
How this compares nationally
47 total violations and 13 health-based ones put DOUGLAS WATER DEPARTMENT at the 89th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,440 of 12,903.
How DOUGLAS WATER DEPARTMENT compares within MA
DOUGLAS WATER DEPARTMENT's 13 health-based violations sit above the MA average of 7.0, across 283 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for DOUGLAS WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2014-01-11 (health-based: 2014-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
DOUGLAS WATER DEPARTMENT'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 this data is and is not
This is what DOUGLAS WATER DEPARTMENT reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and DOUGLAS WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,440th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.