Community Water System · PWSID CT0590031

Noank Fire District

Serves 1,947 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentNoank, Connecticut
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On record since 1994: 19 violations. 6 missed or late tests · 13 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-09-29.

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
0Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
13Notice or report

More violations on record than 82% 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

1994 · Missed or late test: 11995 · Missed or late test: 11995200020052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 220102012 · Notice or report: 22012 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
32% missed or late test · 668% notice or report · 13

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 14 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4.4 ppb
3.2 ppb
3 ppb
2.6 ppb
2.5 ppb
2.3 ppb
2.2 ppb
2.2 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.1 ppb
1.1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2023-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  3. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2021-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2020-03-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  8. 2017-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  9. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2012-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  13. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2008-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  15. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2007-01-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 1995-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,947
Service connections760
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityNoank
EPA ZIP on file06340

Areas served

  • Groton, New London County

Reading this record

Noank Fire District is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,947 people in Noank, 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.