890 Boston Turnpike, CT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
890 Boston Turnpike serves about 60 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tolland County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: CT0121081; phone on file: 860-268-4912. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
890 Boston Turnpike's lead record
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for 890 Boston Turnpike is 3 ppb across 18 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Connecticut systems
Of the 493 Connecticut systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.8 ppb; 2 are over 15 ppb right now and 49 have gone over at some point. 890 Boston Turnpike's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Connecticut and the 5th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
63 other systems share Tolland County; 37 of them have a higher latest lead result than 890 Boston Turnpike. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| University Of Connecticut - Main Campus | 27,199 | 7.6 ppb |
| Ctwc - Hebron Center Division | 1,927 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tolland Water Department | 1,251 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Amston Lake Division | 910 | 1.3 ppb |
| Ctwc - Uconn South Eagleville Div. | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Northern Reg - Lakewood/Lakeview | 748 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Coventry Hills Div | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - South Coventry System | 501 | 3.2 ppb |
| Woodhaven Apartments | 489 | 0.6 ppb |
| Vernon Village Inc. | 430 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Tolland, CT
Look up your address in 890 Boston Turnpike's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask 890 Boston Turnpike whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.