Community Water System · PWSID CT0780061

Orchard Acres Association

Serves 176 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateEast Hartford, 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 1994: 14 violations. 1 over the limit · 4 treatment lapses · 5 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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

1Over the limit
4Treatment lapse1 open
5Missed or late test
4Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 76% 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: 1199520002004 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 220052007 · Missed or late test: 1201020152016 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% over the limit · 129% treatment lapse · 436% missed or late test · 529% notice or report · 4

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

2 ppb
1.1 ppb
0.2 ppb

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. 2022-08-16E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  5. 2022-02-03Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-11E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2022-01-09Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2021-12-13E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2021-09-20Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  10. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2007-01-10Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2004-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  13. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served176
Service connections88
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityEast Hartford
EPA ZIP on file06108

Areas served

  • Mansfield, Tolland County

Reading this record

Orchard Acres Association is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 176 people in East Hartford, 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.