Our mission
Hanson Water Watch exists to make water quality information accessible to every household in town. The Water Department publishes a Consumer Confidence Report once a year, and MassDEP and EPA monitoring data trickles out on its own separate schedule — but none of it is written with an ordinary resident in mind.
We collect it, check it against state and federal guidelines, and put it in one place, in language anyone can read in five minutes.
How we started
This began with a handful of Hanson residents comparing notes after noticing manganese levels creeping up in the town's published testing data — not a scary contaminant by most measures, but a sign of just how closely Hanson's water is tied to the health of the aquifer underneath it. What started as a shared spreadsheet turned into this site: a standing effort to keep tabs on the Crystal Spring well system and flag anything worth a second look.
