Pittsfield Dpu Water Dept

Water Quality Snapshot: Pittsfield Dpu Water Dept

Pittsfield Dpu Water Dept is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 43,927 residents in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (Berkshire County) through 15,574 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 144 total violations for this system , of which 2 (1%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 104 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2017.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Consumer Confidence Rule, recorded in 4 violations (Other). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Massachusetts, EPA tracks 1,599 public water systems serving 10,332,845 people, with 73,886 cumulative violations and 7,389 health-based violations on record. About 95% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 46.2 violations. Statewide, 148 of 263 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (56.3%).

Pittsfield Dpu Water Dept's 144 violations sit above the Massachusetts average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.