Community Water System · PWSID CT0960061

Birch Groves Association, Inc

Serves 300 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateNew Milford, Connecticut
Nothing open that measures the water, but 6 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2013: 40 violations. 2 over the limit · 21 missed or late tests · 17 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-10.

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

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
21Missed or late test3 open
17Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 89% 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

200520102013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Over the limit: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 12020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 253% missed or late test · 2143% notice or report · 17

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 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

20 ppb
15.9 ppb
5 ppb
4.6 ppb
3.9 ppb
2.5 ppb
2 ppb

Open now (6)

  1. 2023-08-29E. Coli ×3Monitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2023-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  3. 2022-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  4. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  2. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2024-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  5. 2024-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2023-08-29E. Coli ×3Monitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  8. 2023-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  9. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2022-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  11. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  12. 2021-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  13. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2021-01-01Calcium ×2Water Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2021-01-01Temperature (Centigrade) ×2Water Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  16. 2021-01-01Alkalinity, Total ×2Water Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2021-01-01Conductivity @ 25 C Umhos/Cm ×2Water Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2021-01-01pHWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2020-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  20. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2017-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  22. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2016-10-10Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  24. 2016-05-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
Show the other 9 entries
  1. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  2. 2014-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  3. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2014-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2014-01-01Gross Beta Particle ActivityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2014-01-01ManMade Beta Particle and Photon EmitterMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2014-01-01TritiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2014-01-0138-Strontium-90Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served300
Service connections75
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityNew Milford
EPA ZIP on file06776

Areas served

  • New Milford, Litchfield County

Reading this record

Birch Groves Association, Inc is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 300 people in New Milford, 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.