Drinking Water Public Health Orders
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Note: This information is updated within 24 hours for all public health orders issued during normal business hours. Orders issued on holidays or weekends are updated within 24 hours of the next business day.
When MassDEP issues a public health order to a local public water supplier(PWS), the PWS must notify its customers of the actions the customers should take. The PWS must also take appropriate corrective action, continue to monitor its water supply, and notify customers when the problem has been remedied and the water order has been lifted. If you have questions regarding a public health order the PWS should be contacted for details, and in limited instances consumers may find more information on their city or towns web site. The MassDEP website provides basic information regarding public health orders. If you have any comments and/or suggestions regarding this site, contact MassDEP - Drinking Water Program at Program.Director-DWP@state.ma.us

Listed below are all drinking water public health orders for the past calendar year. You can filter the results using the search criteria above. To get a water supplier's contact information click on the water supplier's name. To learn what you should do in the event of a specific public health order, click on the link found under the "Order Type" column heading. Regardless of the order type (Do Not Use, Do Not Drink, and Boil), use of bottled water is always recommended until the order has been terminated.

Current Active Water Orders
 
City/Town
Supplier/Contact
Order Type
Contaminant Type
Results, Comments, Additional Information
Date Order Issued
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Record Last Update Date
Date Order Terminated
BECKETBECKET ATHENAEUM INCBOILBACTERIABoil water at a rolling boil for 1 minute before using for any human consumption purpose or use bottled water from an alternate source

4-30-2012-TCR- Ecoli source. The PWS has experienced total coliform detections recently. Repeat results included an E.coli positive result for the source. The library has an emergency plan it is implementing.		4/30/2012ENTIRE SYSTEMACTIVE4/30/2012
CHARLTONPLOUFFES YANKEE DINERBOILBACTERIABoil water at a rolling boil for 1 minute before using for any human consumption purpose or use bottled water from an alternate source

4-27-2012-TCR- Ecoli source. MassDEP issued a Boil Water Order to Forever Hopeful, LLC., the owner and operator of a Transient Non-Community Public Water System (PWS) that serves the Yankee Diner Restaurant at 16 Worcester Road, Charlton, Massachusetts. The PWS was notified that routine samples collected from the PWS confirmed positive for total coliform and also confirmed positive for E.coli. MassDEP informed the PWS of its regulatory requirements and directed the PWS to evaluate the cause of the contamination, take corrective actions, and notify it’s consumers to boil the water before drinking or consume water from an alternative source. The local Board of Health has since closed the facility until satisfactory actions have been taken by the PWS.		4/27/2012ENTIRE SYSTEMACTIVE5/3/2012
LANCASTEROAK RIDGE FARM STOREDO NOT DRINKINORGANICSDo not use water for human consumption purposes.

Use bottled water from an alternate source.

Nitrates: Nitrates over the MCL		9/21/2010ENTIRE SYSTEMACTIVE12/7/2010
 
*Supplier/contact information is updated periodically. If you find that the supplier/contact information is inaccurate please contact your town to obtain current contact information.