Community Water System · PWSID CT0210011

Aquarion-Falls Village

Serves 488 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentShelton, Connecticut
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2004: 71 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 49 missed or late tests · 19 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-11-17.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
3Treatment lapse
49Missed or late test
19Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 95% of active water systems in Connecticut. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2004 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 220102012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 22018 · Missed or late test: 422018 · Missed or late test: 422018 · Missed or late test: 422018 · Missed or late test: 422018 · Missed or late test: 422018 · Missed or late test: 422018 · Missed or late test: 422018 · Missed or late test: 422018 · Missed or late test: 422018 · Missed or late test: 422018 · Missed or late test: 422018 · Notice or report: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square ≈ 4 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 369% missed or late test · 4927% notice or report · 19

Across Connecticut, 76% of violations are missed or late tests and 1% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-11-17Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  2. 2022-03-26Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2021-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  4. 2020-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  5. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2019-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2019-07-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2019-07-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2019-01-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2018-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2018-12-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2018-10-22Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  14. 2018-09-21Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  15. 2018-05-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2018-03-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2018-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2018-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2018-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2018-01-01MetribuzinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2018-01-01DicambaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2018-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2018-01-01AldrinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2018-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2018-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 45 entries
  1. 2018-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2018-01-01PropachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2018-01-01ButachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2018-01-01DieldrinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2018-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2018-01-013-HydroxycarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2018-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2018-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2018-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2018-01-01AldicarbMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2018-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2018-01-01MetolachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2018-01-01Aldicarb sulfoneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2018-01-01Aldicarb sulfoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2018-01-01MethomylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2018-01-01CarbarylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2018-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2018-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2018-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2018-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2018-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2018-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2018-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2018-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2018-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  26. 2018-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  27. 2018-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  28. 2018-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  29. 2018-01-01GlyphosateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  30. 2018-01-01DiquatMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  31. 2018-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  32. 2018-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  33. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  34. 2016-12-10Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  35. 2016-10-10Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  36. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  37. 2016-05-20E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  38. 2015-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  39. 2013-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  40. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  41. 2010-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  42. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  43. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  44. 2006-12-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  45. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served488
Service connections125
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityShelton
EPA ZIP on file06484

Areas served

  • Canaan, Litchfield County

Reading this record

Aquarion-Falls Village is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 488 people in Shelton, Connecticut. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.