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Community Water System · PWS CT0680011

Aquarion-Kent

Operator location Shelton, Connecticut - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 817 people served; 22 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

817
People served (this PWS)
22
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Aquarion-Kent standing, mid SDWIS violation third

817 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 18% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #22,186 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Aquarion-Kent lands in the middle third by violation volume (22), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (817; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 18% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#22,186 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#115 of 184
Population · CT
22
Total EPA violations on record
18%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)

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
360
County
Litchfield
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
6
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 4 1989
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2018
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 1995
Asbestos MR 1 2013
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 2021

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Aquarion-Kent has 22 recorded EPA violations, 34% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 65% carry more. 18% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 22), and it ranks #22,186 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

22 Lower than most fewer violations than 65% 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 Aquarion-Kent

EPA SDWIS lists 817 people served and 360 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

22 violations · 817 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems near this violation count

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Aquarion-Kent

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Connecticut compares on the same EPA violation measures. Connecticut systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
  • Find and compare another public water system by name or PWSID. Search systems

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater