PEABODY WATER DEPT.: EPA violation history, explained
PEABODY WATER DEPT. has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 54,481 people get their water from it, across 14,245 connections.
PEABODY WATER DEPT.'s record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, PEABODY WATER DEPT. ranks 2,558th by violation burden (80th percentile) - 116 violations total, 7 health-baseds.
How PEABODY WATER DEPT. compares within MA
PEABODY WATER DEPT.'s 7 health-based violations sit above 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 PEABODY WATER DEPT. is from 2019-01-01 (health-based: 2013-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PEABODY 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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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 PEABODY WATER DEPT.'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 PEABODY WATER DEPT.'s customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,558th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.