Our mission
Kingston Water Watch exists to make water quality information accessible to every household in town. Kingston's water doesn't come from a distant reservoir or a regional wholesaler — it comes from seven groundwater wells the Kingston Water Department has operated, in some cases, since the 1950s. That's a genuinely local story, and the town's own testing data backs up a reputation for clean water: no MCL violations in either of the last two annual reports, and PFAS6 readings that stayed at non-detect for years before showing up only barely above the lab's detection limit in 2024, still nowhere near the state's 20 ppt standard.
That doesn't mean there's nothing to track. Kingston spent 27 months, from April 2023 to July 2025, under a Board of Water Commissioners-imposed moratorium on new water service hookups — a real, consequential local story tied to state peak-demand supply requirements, a new well still working through MassDEP permitting, and (as it happens) a fight with the Town of Plymouth over which town lands a Costco. We follow that story, plus the Water Department's ongoing manganese filtration program and evolving federal PFAS rulemaking, so residents don't have to piece it together from meeting minutes and PDFs.
How we started
This began with a handful of Kingston residents comparing notes after the hookup moratorium became a real point of local debate — realizing that most online water-quality content either assumes every town has a contamination crisis, or ignores towns whose real story is about supply capacity and local governance rather than a specific compound. Kingston's actual public data is reassuring on contamination and genuinely live on capacity, and we thought both halves of that deserved a plain-language home.
