What's in PALMER WATER DISTRICT NO.1's water?
PALMER WATER DISTRICT NO.1 had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 4,789 people through 1,378 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
PALMER WATER DISTRICT NO.1 has 17 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,089th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 61th percentile nationally.
How PALMER WATER DISTRICT NO.1 compares within MA
PALMER WATER DISTRICT NO.1's 3 health-based violations sit within the MA average of 7.0, across 283 systems statewide. 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 PALMER WATER DISTRICT NO.1 is from 2025-01-01 (health-based: 2025-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PALMER WATER DISTRICT NO.1'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: Surface Water Treatment 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
PALMER WATER DISTRICT NO.1'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 PALMER WATER DISTRICT NO.1's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,089th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.