A town on a mixed water supply
Scituate is unusual on the South Shore in drawing from five sources at once: six groundwater wells, Old Oaken Bucket Pond, the Tack Factory Pond/Reservoir system, and — for the Humarock section only — a supply agreement with the neighboring Town of Marshfield.
That mix matters because groundwater, pond water, and a neighboring town's supply don't all carry the same contamination risks, and a single system-wide summary can hide real differences between neighborhoods.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) and the Massachusetts DEP Source Water Assessment Program. See the full breakdown on the Water data page.
