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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS CT0910532

New Fairfield High/Middle School

Operator location New Fairfield, Connecticut - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 576 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,791 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,791
People served (this PWS)
576
EPA violations (this PWS)
37
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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New Fairfield High/Middle School standing, high SDWIS violation third

576 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #14,530 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

New Fairfield High/Middle School sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (576), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,791 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#14,530 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#79 of 184
Population · CT
576
Total EPA violations on record
6%
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
1
County
Fairfield
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
27
Monitoring Violations
513
Treatment Tech Violations
10

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
E. COLI MR 53 2023
Coliform (TCR) MCL 27 2006
Tetrachloroethylene MR 20 2022
Benzene MR 20 2022
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 16 2022
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 16 2022
Vinyl chloride MR 16 2022
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 16 2022
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 16 2022
Carbon tetrachloride MR 16 2022
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 16 2022
Trichloroethylene MR 16 2022
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 16 2022
CHLOROBENZENE MR 16 2022
Toluene MR 16 2022
Ethylbenzene MR 16 2022
Styrene MR 16 2022
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 16 2022
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 16 2022
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 16 2022
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 16 2022
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 16 2022
Revised Total Coliform Rule RPT 16 2023
Lead and Copper Rule MR 14 2024
Chlorine MR 14 2023
Groundwater Rule TT 10 2025
Groundwater Rule MR 8 2012
Coliform (TCR) MR 6 2011
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 6 2021
Public Notice Other 4 2018

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

New Fairfield High/Middle School has 576 recorded EPA violations, 97% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 3% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (37 of 576), and it ranks #14,530 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)

576 Higher than most more violations than 97% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for New Fairfield High/Middle School

576 violations on record for CT0910532; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

576 violations · 1,791 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

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

4 peers

What to do with New Fairfield High/Middle School

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
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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