Birch Landing Condominium, CT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Birch Landing Condominium serves about 82 people through 31 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Windsor County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: VT0020790; phone on file: 860-778-9904. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.1 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Birch Landing Condominium is 27 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 27 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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 Landing Condominium's 2.4 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Connecticut and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
1 other system shares Windsor County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Birch Landing Condominium. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| South Face Village At Okemo | 70 | 4.4 ppb |
Next steps for Manchester, CT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Manchester, 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 Landing Condominium 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.