Bridgewater Commons Condominiums, CT
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Bridgewater Commons Condominiums
Bridgewater Commons Condominiums serves about 51 people through 17 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: CT0161011; phone on file: 203-297-0578. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2 ppb from 11 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bridgewater Commons Condominiums is 13 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 6 ppb |
How Bridgewater Commons Condominiums 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. Bridgewater Commons Condominiums's 13 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Connecticut and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
72 other systems share Litchfield County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bridgewater Commons Condominiums. 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bridgewater, 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 Bridgewater Commons 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.