Is MARSHFIELD WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
MARSHFIELD 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 34,000 people through 11,000 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
69 total violations and 9 health-based ones put MARSHFIELD WATER DEPARTMENT at the 84th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,088 of 12,903.
How MARSHFIELD WATER DEPARTMENT compares within MA
Among the 283 MA systems in this dataset, the average is 7.0 health-based violations - MARSHFIELD WATER DEPARTMENT's 9 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for MARSHFIELD WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 2019-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MARSHFIELD 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); Revised Total Coliform Rule
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 MARSHFIELD 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. This record - 9 health-based violations on file for MARSHFIELD WATER DEPARTMENT - 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.