Our mission
Whitman Water Watch exists to make water quality information accessible to every household in town. Because Whitman's drinking water is purchased wholesale from the City of Brockton rather than produced by a Whitman-owned reservoir or well field, the relevant public notices, MassDEP filings, and treatment updates are often split across two municipalities' websites — easy to overlook unless you know Whitman's CCR is really reporting on someone else's treatment plant.
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 Whitman residents trying to sort out a genuinely confusing detail: a planning document one of us came across described Whitman's water source as tied to the Abington-Rockland Joint Water Works, the same utility whose PFAS treatment project has made news in neighboring towns. That sent us digging through Whitman's own Consumer Confidence Reports — which turned out to describe a completely different, separate supply chain running through the City of Brockton and Silver Lake, with no mention of Abington-Rockland at all. The one exception is a small interconnection near the Abington/Rockland line, confirmed by a 2025 regional boil-water order that reached a specific Whitman street. Sorting fact from spreadsheet shorthand turned into this site: a standing effort to track Whitman's real water supply, not the version that's easiest to assume from a map.
