Community Water System · PWS CT0286011
Colchester Commons
Operator location Colchester, Connecticut - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 224 people served; 331 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 224
- People served (this PWS)
- 331
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 41
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Colchester Commons standing, high SDWIS violation third
224 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 12% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Colchester Commons sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (331), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (224; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 12% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 331
- Total EPA violations on record
- 12%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 224
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 96
- County
- New London
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 40
- Monitoring Violations
- 262
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 36 | 2012 |
| Chlorine | MR | 14 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 13 | 2009 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 10 | 2024 |
| Nitrite | MR | 8 | 2006 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2017 |
| Nitrate | MR | 8 | 2006 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| Styrene | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| Toluene | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| Public Notice | Other | 5 | 2011 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| Benzene | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 4 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Colchester Commons has 331 recorded EPA violations, 92% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 8% carry more. 12% of this system's own violations are health-based (41 of 331), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
331 Higher than most more violations than 92% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Colchester Commons
EPA SDWIS lists 224 people served and 96 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
331 violations · 224 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Colchester Commons
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