About us

A plain-language watchdog for Hull's shared water supply

We're neighbors, not regulators — reading the same public data everyone has access to, and making sure Hull's own households aren't an afterthought in a regional conversation.

Our mission

Hull Water Watch exists to make water quality information accessible to every household on the peninsula. Hull is unusual among the 38-odd towns we track across the state: it doesn't operate its own water utility at all. Every tap in town is supplied by the Weir River Water System, a regional utility headquartered in neighboring Hingham. That means the Consumer Confidence Reports, EPA monitoring results, and public notices that matter to Hull residents are often published and discussed on Hingham's side of things first.

We collect that same data, check it against federal health guidance, and put it in one place written specifically for Hull households — in language anyone can read in five minutes.

How we started

A handful of Hull residents — a few Nantasket-area homeowners and a retired harbor pilot among them — started comparing notes after realizing that recent EPA PFAS testing data for "their" water system was easiest to find on a Hingham town webpage, not a Hull one. What began as a shared spreadsheet turned into this site: a standing, volunteer-run effort to keep Hull's own households informed about the Weir River Water System, regardless of which town happens to host the wells.

Hull Town Hall in Hull, Massachusetts

What we do

Monitor

We track new EPA and Massachusetts DEP monitoring results as they're published for the Weir River Water System, and compare them against the utility's own annual reporting.

Explain

Regulatory language is dense on purpose. We translate what a given detection level actually means for a Hull household, without the jargon — and without assuming you already know Hingham's side of the story.

Connect

If you want a second opinion on your own tap water, we help connect Hull residents with free testing and point toward locally relevant options.

A note on independence

Hull Water Watch is an independent, volunteer-run initiative. We are not affiliated with the Town of Hull, the Weir River Water System, or Aquarion Water Company, and we don't speak on their behalf. Everything we publish links back to its original public source so you can verify it yourself.