Our mission
Rockland Water Watch exists to make water quality information accessible to every household in town. Because Rockland's water comes from a joint utility it co-owns with Abington, the public notices, MassDEP filings, and treatment-plant updates are often split across two town websites and a separate utility site — easy to miss unless you know to look in three places at once.
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
A handful of us started paying closer attention during the May 2025 boil-water order, trying to figure out whether it was a Rockland problem, an Abington problem, or something in between. Digging into it, we found something that surprised us: the Hannigan plant off Hingham Street — Rockland's own treatment plant, named for a former Rockland water commissioner — had been dealing with PFAS exceedances since 2021, and a low-flow sampling point on Longwater Drive, right here in Rockland, had failed disinfection byproduct limits back in 2014 and 2015. Most neighbors we talked to didn't know either fact. What started as a shared spreadsheet turned into this site: a standing effort to keep tabs on the Abington-Rockland Joint Water Works and flag anything worth a second look.
