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Candlewood Shores Tax District

What EPA’s and CDC’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
1,315 people
Connections
502
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Brookfield, CT
County
Fairfield
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

06804

The short answer

2 results are above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2006 to 2027.

Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and arsenic: Connecticut’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2020 to 2023, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium, fluoride and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Jan. 8, 2013 to Jan. 8, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal2

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

13ppb

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

2019, one sample: 3.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 13 ppb, in 2016: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. Its highest single sample was 13 ppb. In 2019, the latest year on file, its one sample was 3.0 ppb.

What handles it

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

5.0ppb

90th percentile, 2025 to 2027

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 5.0 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits5

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

9.3ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 8.2 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 9.3 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 8.2 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 12 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

11.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 2.8 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 11.8 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 2.8 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 30.8 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

2.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.9 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 4.6 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.14ppm

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

2019: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.14 ppm, in 2013, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.0 ppb, in 2019, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

One compound tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 56 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and arsenic results here are Connecticut’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Uranium, fluoride and chromium (total) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Candlewood Shores Tax District’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; CDC’s yearly averages for Connecticut cover 2020 to 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from Jan. 8, 2013 to Jan. 8, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Candlewood Shores Tax District’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Connecticut certifies.

The 3 labs Connecticut certifies closest to the area Candlewood Shores Tax District serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • ALS Environmental - Newtown

    Newtown, CT · about 7 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, radioactivity

    (203) 270-9973

  • Aquarion Water Trap Falls Water Quality Lab

    Shelton, CT · about 18 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (203) 445-7362

  • South Norwalk Electric & Water Laboratory

    Wilton, CT · about 18 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (203) 866-3366 ext. 259

All 86 certified labs for Connecticut

Sources

PWSID CT0180061. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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