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Is Bigelow Corners, CT tap water safe?

2 utilities serve Bigelow Corners, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Neither of the 2 utilities serving Bigelow Corners has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records.

Aquarion - Ball Pond, which serves the most people here, has 2 results above the health goal. The worst: Uranium at 9.0 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Bigelow Corners’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Aquarion - Ball Pond’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Bigelow Corners

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Connecticut certifies.

The 3 labs Connecticut certifies closest to Bigelow Corners, 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 11 miles

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

    (203) 270-9973

  • South Norwalk Electric & Water Laboratory

    Wilton, CT · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (203) 866-3366 ext. 259

  • Aquarion Water Trap Falls Water Quality Lab

    Shelton, CT · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (203) 445-7362

All 86 certified labs for Connecticut

ZIP codes in Bigelow Corners

Which ZIP codes are in Bigelow Corners: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: Connecticut DPH, approved commercial laboratories certified to test drinking water; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

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