FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, CONGREGATIONAL

Water Quality Snapshot: FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, CONGREGATIONAL

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, CONGREGATIONAL is a private-owned non-transient non-community water system that delivers drinking water to 50 residents in REDDING, Connecticut (Fairfield County) through 2 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 126 total violations for this system , of which 22 (17%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 38 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Revised Total Coliform Rule, recorded in 15 violations (TT, health-based). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

Across Connecticut, EPA tracks 2,332 public water systems serving 2,886,005 people, with 206,662 cumulative violations and 21,779 health-based violations on record. About 94% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 88.6 violations. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, CONGREGATIONAL's 126 violations sit above the Connecticut average. Statewide, 40 of 63 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (63.5%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.