Public EPA test results
Can you drink Danvers tap water? What EPA records show
EPA MA3071000 · serves Danvers, MA · about 28,087 people (EPA SDWIS)
This report shows EPA's federal records for this water system: UCMR 5 testing, lead testing and violations. It isn't a test of the water at your tap, and it has no Water Score.
Public EPA test results
Danvers Water Dept. (EPA MA3071000)
ScoreYourWater.com gives no verdict on your tap water; it shows what the public records say, as of October 14, 2026. For Danvers's main utility, Danvers Water Dept.: 1 health-based violation since July 1, 2021 in EPA records (EPA SDWIS). EPA's UCMR 5 testing looked for 30 contaminants here and found 1.
What EPA records show for Danvers Water Dept., as of October 14, 2026
Health-based violation: Lead and Copper Rule, Lead and Copper Rule, from Jul 2025, with no return-to-compliance action in EPA records (EPA SDWIS).
Lead, 90th percentile: 1.7 ppb at the latest result in EPA records for a monitoring period that ran on or after July 1, 2021, at or below EPA's 15 ppb action level (EPA SDWIS, monitoring period Jan 1, 2026–Jun 30, 2026). The 90th percentile is a system-wide measure from homes sampled under EPA's lead rule; it isn't a result for your home.
EPA's UCMR 5 testing looked for 30 contaminants here and found 1.
Source: EPA records (SDWIS, UCMR 5). SDWIS: data as of Oct 14, 2026. EPA UCMR 5 data, samples through June 2026.
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Does Danvers Water Dept. use chloramine?
We didn't find chloramine in Danvers Water Dept.'s EPA treatment records. That's not a complete list; your utility's annual water quality report says which disinfectant it uses.
What EPA records show for this system
Reported results in EPA records (data as of Oct 14–15, 2026)