Birch Groves Association, Inc, CT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.03 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Birch Groves Association, Inc
Birch Groves Association, Inc serves about 300 people through 75 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Litchfield County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: CT0960061; phone on file: 914-400-8932. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Birch Groves Association, Inc's lead record
That is down 2.53 ppb from 4.56 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Birch Groves Association, Inc is 20 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.03 ppb |
| 2025 | 4.56 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.94 ppb |
| 2024 | 15.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 5 ppb |
How Birch Groves Association, Inc compares
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. Birch Groves Association, Inc's 2.03 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Connecticut and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
72 other systems share Litchfield County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Birch Groves Association, Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Torrington Water Company | 37,915 | 0 (not detected) |
| Watertown Water & Sewer Authority | 9,972 | 2 ppb |
| Winsted Water Works | 7,784 | 2.6 ppb |
| Watertown Fire District | 6,718 | 2.2 ppb |
| Ctwc - Naugatuck Reg-Terryville System | 5,607 | 0.6 ppb |
| Ctwc - Naugatuck Reg-Thomaston System | 3,789 | 2.8 ppb |
| Aquarion-Litchfield Regional | 3,097 | 2 ppb |
| Aquarion-Salisbury | 1,932 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aquarion-New Hartford | 1,872 | 1.4 ppb |
| Aquarion-North Canaan | 1,481 | 1.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Milford, CT may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Birch Groves Association, Inc 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.