Is DUDLEY WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
DUDLEY WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 5,515 people through 2,376 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
162 total violations and 14 health-based ones put DUDLEY WATER DEPARTMENT at the 90th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,295 of 12,903.
How DUDLEY WATER DEPARTMENT compares within MA
MA's 283 covered systems average 7.0 health-based violations each; DUDLEY WATER DEPARTMENT carries 14, more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for DUDLEY WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2023-01-04 (health-based: 2013-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
DUDLEY 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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
DUDLEY WATER DEPARTMENT's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and DUDLEY WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,295th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.