Community Water System · PWS CT0970021
Fairfield Hills
Operator location Newtown, Connecticut - 5% of 64 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 2,610 served per SDWIS.
- 2,610
- People served (this PWS)
- 64
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Fairfield Hills standing, mid SDWIS violation third
5% of 64 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,559 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Fairfield Hills lands in the middle third by violation volume (64), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,610 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,559 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #63 of 184
- Population · CT
- 64
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 22
- County
- Fairfield
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 35
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 2011 |
| Chlorine | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2025 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Nitrite | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 2 | 1999 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 1 | 2006 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 2006 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 2006 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 1 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 1 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Fairfield Hills has 64 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 64), and it ranks #11,559 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)
64 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Fairfield Hills
3 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CT0970021.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
64 violations · 2,610 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Fairfield Hills
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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