Birch Hills Condominiums, CT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
About Birch Hills Condominiums
Birch Hills Condominiums serves about 132 people through 44 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Windham County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: CT0030041; phone on file: 860-856-3346. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Birch Hills Condominiums's lead record
That is down 1.8 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Birch Hills Condominiums is 1.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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 Hills Condominiums's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 17th percentile in Connecticut and the 12th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
45 other systems share Windham County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Birch Hills Condominiums. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Windham Water Works | 21,214 | 0 (not detected) |
| Putnam Water Pollution Control Authority | 7,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Crystal System | 6,378 | 2.1 ppb |
| Ctwc - Gallup System | 2,538 | 2.3 ppb |
| Ctwc - Plainfield System | 1,713 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Thompson System | 1,070 | 1.1 ppb |
| Woodstock Academy South Campus | 620 | 7.9 ppb |
| Pomfret School | 400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Ashford Park Division | 334 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wyndham Park Apartments | 312 | 1.4 ppb |
Next steps for East Hartford, CT
Look up your address in Birch Hills Condominiums'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 Birch Hills Condominiums 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.