Transient Non-Community · PWSID CT0410284

First Church of Christ Congregational

Serves 89 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateEast Haddam, ConnecticutServes a school or daycare
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 2003: 4 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 1 missed or late test · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2008-01-06.

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
1Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 43% 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

2003 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Treatment lapse: 120052007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 12010201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% treatment lapse · 125% missed or late test · 150% notice or report · 2

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2007-03-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2008-01-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2007-03-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2005-07-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  4. 2003-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served89
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityEast Haddam
EPA ZIP on file06423

Areas served

  • East Haddam, Middlesex County

Reading this record

First Church of Christ Congregational is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 89 people in East Haddam, 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.