About us

A plain-language watchdog for a town in transition

We're neighbors, not regulators — reading the same public data everyone has access to, and translating it into something you can actually use.

Our mission

Weymouth Water Watch exists to make water quality information accessible to every household in town. Weymouth runs its own independent water system, but the story around it is more complicated than a single CCR PDF suggests: a genuinely clean recent testing record, an in-progress lead service line inventory, a decades-old supply constraint, and a major regional infrastructure shift (the proposed MWRA connection) all happening at once — plus a well-documented, serious PFAS contamination site at the former Naval Air Station that has nothing to do with the town's tap water but gets confused with it constantly.

We collect the actual public data, check it against state and federal guidelines, and put it in one place, in language anyone can read in five minutes — without blurring the line between "Weymouth's tap water" and "the Superfund site in South Weymouth."

How we started

This began with a handful of Weymouth residents trying to understand news coverage of the SouthField redevelopment and the town's MWRA application, and realizing that most neighbors had no idea their own tap water was tested completely separately from — and came back far cleaner than — the well-publicized contamination at the old Naval Air Station a few miles away. What started as a shared set of bookmarked PDFs turned into this site: a standing effort to keep tabs on the Weymouth Water Department and flag anything worth a second look.

Weymouth Town Hall in Weymouth, Massachusetts

What we do

Monitor

We track new MassDEP and EPA monitoring results as they're published, and follow the Weymouth Water Department's annual reports and the MWRA connection project through permitting and construction.

Explain

Weymouth's water story has real nuance — a clean municipal supply, an unfinished lead-line inventory, and a serious but separate contamination site nearby. We translate what each of those actually means for your household, without the jargon and without conflating them.

Connect

If you want a second opinion on your own tap water, we help connect residents with free testing and point toward locally relevant filtration options.

A note on independence

Weymouth Water Watch is an independent, volunteer-run initiative. We are not affiliated with the Town of Weymouth or the Weymouth Water Department, and we don't speak on their behalf. Everything we publish links back to its original public source so you can verify it yourself.