What's in ROWLEY WATER DEPARTMENT's water?
ROWLEY 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 6,161 people through 2,008 service connections.
ROWLEY WATER DEPARTMENT's record against the rest of the country
ROWLEY WATER DEPARTMENT has 74 violations on record in total, 10 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,898th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 85th percentile nationally.
Against the MA average
Among the 283 MA systems in this dataset, the average is 7.0 health-based violations - ROWLEY WATER DEPARTMENT's 10 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
ROWLEY WATER DEPARTMENT's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-01-04, with the most recent health-based one dated 2009-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
ROWLEY 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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What ROWLEY WATER DEPARTMENT's record does not cover
Everything on this page is ROWLEY WATER DEPARTMENT'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 ROWLEY WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,898th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.