Our mission
Braintree Water Watch exists to make water quality information accessible to every household in town. Utilities publish Consumer Confidence Reports once a year, and the EPA runs monitoring programs like UCMR5 on rolling schedules — but that data is scattered, dense, and written for regulators, not residents.
We collect it, check it against federal health guidance, and put it in one place, in language anyone can read in five minutes.
How we started
The group came together informally after a handful of Braintree residents started asking questions about the new regional water treatment plant under construction on the Great Pond shoreline, and realized there wasn't a single, plain-language place to find what the underlying EPA and MassDEP testing data actually said. What began as a shared folder of PDFs turned into this site: a standing, volunteer-run effort to keep tabs on the Great Pond Reservoir System and flag anything worth a second look.
