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Is Waterbury, CT tap water safe?

4 utilities serve Waterbury, 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

None of the 4 utilities serving Waterbury has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records.

Waterbury Water Department, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 1.0 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 Waterbury’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 Waterbury Water Department’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 Waterbury

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 Waterbury, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Northwest Environmental Water Labs

    Waterbury, CT · about 2 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (203) 437-4110

  • EMSL Analytical, Inc. - CT

    Meriden, CT · about 11 miles

    Certified for bacteria, asbestos

    (203) 284-5948

  • Aquatek Labs, Inc.

    Woodbridge, CT · about 14 miles

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

    (203) 389-1824

All 86 certified labs for Connecticut

ZIP codes in Waterbury

Which ZIP codes are in Waterbury: 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.

Near Waterbury

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