Danvers Water Hardness & Quality Report (2026)

Danvers, Massachusetts, in Essex County — a major north Boston suburban community (Danvers is a significant Essex County town — a north Boston suburb adjacent to Salem and Beverly; Danvers has a profound historical significance as the original site of the Salem Witch Trials (Danvers was originally called 'Salem Village' — the location where the Salem Witch Trials hysteria began in 1692; the original Salem Village, not the Salem waterfront, was the epicenter of the accusation crisis that led to the execution of 20 people; the 1692 Salem Witch Trials are one of the most studied episodes of mass hysteria and legal injustice in American history; Danvers renamed itself in 1752, partly to distance itself from the witch trial legacy); Danvers is home of the Danvers State Hospital (the former Massachusetts State Lunatic Asylum at Danvers — one of the most architecturally significant and historically important 19th-century psychiatric institutions in the United States; the Gothic Richardson Romanesque structure was designed by Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee in 1878 and is now converted to condominiums)), a diverse Essex County community with a primarily Italian-American, professional, and suburban family population — draws its municipal water supply via the Danvers Water Division. Water hardness in Danvers measures 83.5 mg/L — classified as moderately soft.

Danvers's moderate softness reflects the north Boston Essex County Ipswich River crystalline watershed's calcareous-poor character. The Ipswich River watershed drains the Precambrian Essex County crystalline granite with effective treatment, producing the moderately soft 83.5 mg/L.

With hardness at 83.5 mg/L, Danvers residents enjoy moderately soft water. Danvers Water Division consistently delivers water meeting all Massachusetts DEP and EPA Safe Drinking Water Act requirements.