Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID CT0779083

Elisabeth M. Bennet Academy

Serves 536 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentManchester, Connecticut
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2014: 31 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 27 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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
2Treatment lapse1 open
27Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 88% 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

200520102014 · Treatment lapse: 12014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% treatment lapse · 287% missed or late test · 276% notice or report · 2

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 18 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.1 ppb
2 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.1 ppb
0.7 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.4 mg/L

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2024-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  4. 2024-03-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2023-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2023-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  7. 2023-01-01CalciumWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2023-01-01Temperature (Centigrade)Water Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01Alkalinity, TotalWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  10. 2023-01-01Conductivity @ 25 C Umhos/CmWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2022-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2022-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  13. 2021-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  14. 2020-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2020-03-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  16. 2019-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  17. 2019-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  18. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2018-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  21. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2018-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  24. 2017-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  25. 2017-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
Show the other 6 entries
  1. 2015-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2015-08-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2015-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  4. 2014-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2014-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2014-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance

System details

Population served536
Service connections1
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityManchester
EPA ZIP on file06042

Areas served

  • Manchester, Hartford County

Reading this record

Elisabeth M. Bennet Academy is a non-transient non-community that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 536 people in Manchester, 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.