Is MIDDLEBOROUGH WATER SUPPLY's water safe to drink?
MIDDLEBOROUGH WATER SUPPLY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 15,350 people get their water from it, across 6,281 connections.
How this compares nationally
19 total violations and 6 health-based ones put MIDDLEBOROUGH WATER SUPPLY at the 76th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 3,113 of 12,903.
Against the MA average
Among the 283 MA systems in this dataset, the average is 7.0 health-based violations - MIDDLEBOROUGH WATER SUPPLY's 6 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
MIDDLEBOROUGH WATER SUPPLY's most recent violation on record is dated 2012-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2005-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
MIDDLEBOROUGH WATER SUPPLY'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 MIDDLEBOROUGH WATER SUPPLY's record does not cover
MIDDLEBOROUGH WATER SUPPLY'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 MIDDLEBOROUGH WATER SUPPLY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,113th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.