What's in HOLDEN WATER DIVISION, DPW's water?
HOLDEN WATER DIVISION, DPW has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 18,016 people through 6,504 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
HOLDEN WATER DIVISION, DPW has 67 violations on record in total, 18 of thems health-based - ranking it 994th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 92th percentile nationally.
How HOLDEN WATER DIVISION, DPW compares within MA
Among the 283 MA systems in this dataset, the average is 7.0 health-based violations - HOLDEN WATER DIVISION, DPW's 18 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for HOLDEN WATER DIVISION, DPW is from 2015-01-07 (health-based: 2014-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HOLDEN WATER DIVISION, DPW'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); Surface Water Treatment Rule
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
Everything on this page is HOLDEN WATER DIVISION, DPW's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and HOLDEN WATER DIVISION, DPW's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 994th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.