Our mission
Marshfield Water Watch exists to make water quality information accessible to every household in town. Marshfield runs its own entirely independent groundwater system — sixteen wells across six aquifers, no purchased water in the mix — and by most measures it's a well-run one. But "well-run" isn't the same as "nothing to check": a combined system-wide PFAS result that comfortably clears the state standard can still coexist with individual wells testing above the newer, stricter federal limit, and a Consumer Confidence Report that says "no violations" can still sit alongside a federal compliance record that shows a different count.
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 — including the parts that are genuinely reassuring and the parts that deserve a second look.
How we started
This began with a handful of Marshfield residents who kept seeing PFAS headlines about Duxbury, Weymouth, and other South Shore towns and wondered what their own town's numbers actually looked like — only to find that Marshfield's picture is its own kind of complicated, not a simple "clean" or "contaminated" story. What started as a shared folder of downloaded Consumer Confidence Reports turned into this site: a standing effort to keep tabs on the Marshfield DPW Water Division and flag anything worth a second look.
