Is Braintree Town, MA tap water safe?
Supplied by Tri Town Water Board · serves 856,000 people (2 connections) · Surface water · EPA ID MA4040002
Data: U.S. EPA · How we read the data · How we check it
Most of Braintree Town gets its water from Tri Town Water Board. Parts of the city are served by a smaller system: Braintree Water and Sewer Dept. (39,143 people). Your water bill names your system.
Summary
No limits exceeded in the data EPA has, but the record is incomplete: no federal PFAS results.
- PFAS
- No EPA resultsNo results for this system in EPA's 2023–2025 PFAS testing. Ask the utility or your state drinking water program whether it has tested.
- Lead
- No resultsNo lead and copper results in EPA's national database.
- Violations
- None health-basedNo health-based violations since 2016.
- Built before 1986, or not sure what your service line is made of? Check your service line and test your tap. Utility data can't show your pipes.
- Tested your own tap? Compare your result with these numbers. Moving? Compare this system with another.
- Read Tri Town Water Board's annual water quality report (Consumer Confidence Report). It lists every regulated contaminant tested and is usually on the utility's website or mailed with your bill, and you can also request it at (781) 794-8943. EPA: how to find it.
PFAS (“forever chemicals”)
No EPA results. No results for this system in EPA's 2023–2025 PFAS testing. Ask the utility or your state drinking water program whether it has tested. Your state may have its own PFAS sampling results.
Lead and copper
No lead and copper results reported to EPA's national database for this system.
Violations
Health-based violations mean a contaminant exceeded a limit or a required treatment step was missed. Monitoring and reporting violations mean required tests or reports were late or missing, so the water's quality during that time is unknown. The total includes every violation in EPA's records, most of them paperwork.
Where it serves
Braintree Town
ZIP codes the system reported serving: 02184
Nearby utilities
- Braintree Water and Sewer Dept. Braintree Town · same area · PFAS above limit
- Weymouth Water Department Weymouth Town · 3 mi
- Randolph Water Department Randolph Town · 3 mi · PFAS above limit
- Quincy Water Dept. (MWRA) Quincy · 4 mi
- Holbrook Public Works Dept Holbrook · 5 mi · PFAS above limit
- Town of Avon Avon · 6 mi · PFAS above limit
Questions
Is Braintree Town tap water safe to drink?
Most of Braintree Town gets its water from Tri Town Water Board. Tri Town Water Board has no health-based violations since 2016. There are no federal PFAS results for this system. Federal data can't tell you about your own pipes: lead comes from service lines and plumbing, so test your tap if your home was built before 1986. For the official word, read the utility's annual Consumer Confidence Report.
Does Braintree Town water have PFAS?
Unknown from federal data. No results for this system in EPA's 2023–2025 PFAS testing. Ask the utility or your state drinking water program whether it has tested.
Check these numbers yourself
Every figure on this page comes from public EPA records. You don't have to take our word for it:
- EPA's own report for MA4040002: violations, enforcement and inspections, straight from EPA.
- EPA SDWIS download: the lead results, population and violation records we use.
- The utility's annual water quality report (Consumer Confidence Report): ask Tri Town Water Board at (781) 794-8943, or see EPA's guide to finding it.
Found something that doesn't match? Tell us and we'll check it against EPA's records. How we check our data.
Source: U.S. EPA drinking water records and PFAS testing (UCMR 5). How we read the data.