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Water hardness in Barre

Find official utility reports, understand hardness, and check the water system serving your home in Barre, Massachusetts.

Utility-reported hardness

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State comparison
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Evidence comparison rank
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Matched utilities
2
Active health records
0

Your tap water

What does the utility report?

Match the utility name to your water bill. These results describe the utility’s water, not a test at your home. A ZIP can include several water systems.

Utility hardness unavailable in this index

Nearby river or groundwater samples cannot tell us the hardness coming out of your tap. Ask your water provider for total hardness as CaCO₃, or test it at home.

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Your utility’s measurements and compliance records

These are possible serving systems. A record for one system does not apply to every home in this ZIP. Confirm your provider before interpreting a measurement or notice. Federal records can lag current utility notices.

EPA snapshot: 2026Q2. Historical window begins Jan 1, 2021.

Barre Water Department

MA2021000 · Groundwater · 2,610 people served system-wide

EPA SDWIS explicitly lists this ZIP in the system's served geography.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

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Measurements (2)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level
Reported level
0.0015 mg/L
Action level
0.015 mg/L

10% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025

Copper (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Above action level
Reported level
5.7 mg/L
Action level
1.3 mg/L

438% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 1994 to Jun 30, 1994

Violation history (17)
Imported violation history for Barre Water Department
RuleStatusPeriod
Lead and Copper RuleResolvedDec 30, 2025 to Mar 9, 2026
Groundwater RuleResolvedApr 1, 2025 to Apr 30, 2025
Groundwater RuleResolvedMar 1, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
Groundwater RuleResolvedFeb 1, 2025 to Feb 28, 2025
Groundwater RuleResolvedJan 1, 2025 to Jan 31, 2025
Groundwater RuleResolvedDec 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024
Groundwater RuleResolvedNov 1, 2024 to Nov 30, 2024
Revised Total Coliform RuleResolvedSep 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024
Groundwater RuleResolvedAug 1, 2024 to Aug 30, 2024
Groundwater RuleResolvedJul 1, 2024 to Jul 31, 2024
Groundwater RuleResolvedJul 1, 2024 to Jul 31, 2024
Groundwater RuleResolvedJul 1, 2024 to Jul 31, 2024
Groundwater RuleResolvedJul 1, 2024 to Jul 31, 2024
Radium-228ResolvedApr 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2024
Radium-226ResolvedApr 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2024
Revised Total Coliform RuleResolvedNov 1, 2023 to Nov 30, 2023
Lead and Copper RuleResolvedJun 1, 2021 to Sep 28, 2022

Barre Mhp/waterwheel Village

MA2021001 · Groundwater · 114 people served system-wide

EPA SDWIS explicitly lists this ZIP in the system's served geography.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

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Measurements (1)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level
Reported level
0.0017 mg/L
Action level
0.015 mg/L

11% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2022 to Dec 31, 2024

Violation history (0)

No record returned in this imported window. This is not a guarantee of tap-water safety.

City summary

What the indexed records say

Barre has 1 published ZIP profile across Worcester County. The regional-evidence median is 87 PPM. The city does not meet the stricter comparison standard.

Because only one ZIP is represented, the city median and range are the same local estimate. It should not be read as multiple independent samples across the community. At least one estimate is marked low confidence, so observation distance and date deserve extra attention.

Hardness distribution

How local ZIP estimates compare

Soft0 ZIPs
Moderately hard1 ZIP
Hard0 ZIPs
Very hard0 ZIPs

1 of 1 ZIP profiles have a hardness estimate. Bars count ZIP profiles, not households or laboratory samples.

Evidence quality

Distance, dates, and confidence

Median nearest distance
15.6 miles
Profiles with evidence
1/1

Confidence labels

High: 0Moderate: 0Low: 1

Observation window: May 11, 2016 to Nov 28, 2018.

ZIP directory

Water reports in Barre

Open a ZIP for site-level provenance and measurements.

ZIP code

01005

Moderately Hard

87.2 PPM

Nearest site
15.6 mi
Confidence
Low

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Practical next steps

Move from index to evidence

  1. 1. Open your ZIP. Check distance, dates, confidence, and the associated utility.
  2. 2. Read the current CCR. Confirm source water, detections, limits, ranges, and notices.
  3. 3. Use a measured hardness result. Confirm health concerns or treatment sizing with the right method.

Questions people ask

About water in Barre

Is the water hard?

Check the utility-reported result above when available. Nearby environmental samples cannot establish tap-water hardness. Ask your provider or test your tap.

Is the tap water safe?

Compliance history is utility-wide and cannot guarantee conditions at every tap. Check current notices and test when address-specific evidence is needed.

Do I need treatment?

Choose treatment only after confirming the problem at the property. A softener targets hardness; contaminant treatment requires a matching, verified performance claim.