Community Water System · PWS CT0910591
Candlewood Knolls Water Authority
Operator location New Fairfield, Connecticut - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 524 people served; 478 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 524
- People served (this PWS)
- 478
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 16
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Candlewood Knolls Water Authority standing, high SDWIS violation third
524 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #28,076 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Candlewood Knolls Water Authority sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (478), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (524; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #28,076 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #171 of 184
- Population · CT
- 478
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- 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
- 145
- County
- Fairfield
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 16
- Monitoring Violations
- 410
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 27 | 2015 |
| Nitrate | MR | 18 | 2019 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 16 | 2013 |
| Cadmium | MR | 16 | 2023 |
| Nitrite | MR | 14 | 2019 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 9 | 2023 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 9 | 2023 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 2019 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2022 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 7 | 2023 |
| Arsenic | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| Selenium | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| Barium | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| Chromium | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| Mercury | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| Benzene | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 6 | 2014 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Candlewood Knolls Water Authority has 478 recorded EPA violations, 95% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 5% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (16 of 478), and it ranks #28,076 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)
478 Higher than most more violations than 95% 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 Candlewood Knolls Water Authority
EPA SDWIS lists 524 people served and 145 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
478 violations · 524 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Candlewood Knolls Water Authority
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