Middlesex County Water Quality Issues

Middlesex County Water Contaminants

Middlesex County has some very distinct zones where particular water quality is of concern. For example, Harvard, MA has a fairly broad area where there is a high susceptibility to Arsenic in water and Radon in water requiring water filtration.  Carlisle’s private wells have some areas of radon concentration as well as Iron and Manganese in water.  PFAS in water has become a fairly recent health concern.  If you have a private well, water testing is the only way to know if you have it.  Town water suppliers are required to notify you if your water exceeds PFAS in water limits.  

Sudbury town water is supplied from approximately 9 different wells. Accordingly, inconsistencies in Sudbury water quality may be experienced throughout the year depending on the primary sources being pulled from.  Hopkinton has high Iron, manganese and low pH in many of it’s private wells and areas with radon in the water.  For more information from the Hopkinton Water Department, see the following link at Hopkinton Dept Public Works-Water. There is no public water supply in Stow, only private wells or community water supplies sourced from wells.  Many of the homes in Stow have high dissolved and particulate iron and require a water softener and sediment filter combination. Concord, Groton, Dunstable, Ashland and many other towns in Middlesex county also experience high Iron, manganese and low pH or acidic water.

Remediation of these water quality problems can be achieved with water softeners, pH neutralization, arsenic specific resin for the removal of arsenic from well water, systems to remove radon from well water and other water filtration systems, including reverse osmosis purification.  For PFAS in water, effect and safe whole house filtration can be provided with a dual “lead-lag” tank arsenic filtration system.  Reverse osmosis with added activated carbon can also be used for “point of use” water filtration to remove arsenic from drinking water.

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

Have your water supply tested for contaminants by contacting a H2O Care treatment professional. If it is a health threat-related contaminant such as Arsenic, PFAS or Radon, we can help you prepare a proper sample to send to a state certified laboratory and assist in interpreting the results. For basic water testing for pH, Iron, Manganese, Hardness, Alkalinity or Total Dissolved Solids, we offer complimentary water testing to Middlesex County residents.

Call H2O Care at (800) 539-1100,  or Email us today.