Norfolk County Water Quality Issues

Norfolk County is known as the County of Presidents because it is the birthplace of four Presidents of the United States: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John F. Kennedy, and George Herbert Walker Bush.  Norfolk County consists of twenty-eight (28) eastern Massachusetts communities, mostly located to the South and West of Boston.

Norfolk County Water Systems & Problems

There are 35 water systems supplying the towns in Norfolk County. Dedham/Westwood to the North, Wellesley Water Department (Wellesley College has its own supply), Dover Water Company, Holbrook Public Works and thirty others. The largest supplier is the Weymouth Water Department (over 52,000 people) and the smallest is Old Farm Road Water Trust in Dover servicing approximately 35 people.

Most of the homes and businesses are provided water by the above mentioned water suppliers.  However, many private wells supply water in the county also. Common water quality issues include iron in water, hard water, manganese, low pH or acidic water.  Other less common but often found include arsenic in water, radon in water and PFAS in water.

Water softeners will remove dissolved iron and manganese as well as hard water minerals.  Sediment filters will remove particulate iron and manganese and other forms of sediment in the water supply.  Arsenic can be removed either at the point of entry into the home or at a point of use for drinking water.  An effective and safe point of entry system would entail a dual “lead-lag” tank system with specific arsenic resin.  For point of use water filtration, a reverse osmosis system is an effective method.  For PFAS in water, we also use a dual “lead-lag” tank system with resin specific to PFAS removal.  Also, a reverse osmosis system with additional activated carbon will be an effective point of use removal method for PFAS.

For more information about radon in Norfolk County, see the following link http://county-radon.info/MA/Norfolk.html. For more information about arsenic in water see the link at https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/arsenic.

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