Is HAVERHILL WATER DEPT's water safe to drink?
HAVERHILL WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 61,277 people get their water from it, across 18,040 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
HAVERHILL WATER DEPT has 43 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,493th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 42th percentile nationally.
Against the MA average
Among the 283 MA systems in this dataset, the average is 7.0 health-based violations - HAVERHILL WATER 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
HAVERHILL WATER DEPT's most recent violation on record is dated 2020-01-06, with the most recent health-based one dated 1997-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
HAVERHILL WATER 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 HAVERHILL WATER DEPT's record does not cover
This is what HAVERHILL WATER DEPT 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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for HAVERHILL WATER DEPT - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.