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Community Water System · PWS MA2140010

Hubbardston House Apartments

Operator location Worcester, Massachusetts - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 40 people served; 56 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

40
People served (this PWS)
56
EPA violations (this PWS)
2
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Hubbardston House Apartments standing, mid SDWIS violation third

40 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Hubbardston House Apartments lands in the middle third by violation volume (56), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (40; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

56
Total EPA violations on record
4%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
40
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
2
County
Worcester
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
43
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 16 2022
Nitrate MR 3 1995
Nitrate MCL 2 2015
Radium-226 MR 2 1995
Radium-228 MR 2 1995
Gross Beta Particle Activity MR 2 1995
Tritium MR 2 1995
38-STRONTIUM-90 MR 2 1995
Coliform (TCR) MR 1 1995
Arsenic MR 1 1995
Barium MR 1 1995
Chromium MR 1 1995
CYANIDE MR 1 1995
Fluoride MR 1 1995
Mercury MR 1 1995
Selenium MR 1 1995
Antimony, Total MR 1 1995
Thallium, Total MR 1 1995
Beryllium, Total MR 1 1995
Nitrite MR 1 1993
Cadmium MR 1 1995
Nickel MR 1 1995

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Hubbardston House Apartments has 56 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 56), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

56 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Hubbardston House Apartments

EPA SDWIS lists 40 people served and 2 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

EPA SDWIS · PWS MA2140010 MA primacy agency

Sources: EPA SDWIS · MassDEP, Drinking Water Program

Nationwide peers

56 violations · 40 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems near this violation count

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

What to do with Hubbardston House Apartments

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater