Cedar Terrace Prop Owners Assn, CT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Cedar Terrace Prop Owners Assn at a glance
Cedar Terrace Prop Owners Assn serves about 66 people through 18 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fairfield County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: CT0340141; phone on file: 203-792-7558. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Cedar Terrace Prop Owners Assn's lead record
That is down 2.14 ppb from 3.24 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cedar Terrace Prop Owners Assn is 9 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2025 | 3.24 ppb |
| 2024 | 5 ppb |
| 2024 | 6.88 ppb |
| 2023 | 9 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 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. Cedar Terrace Prop Owners Assn's 1.1 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Connecticut and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
58 other systems share Fairfield County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cedar Terrace Prop Owners Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aquarion-Eastern Fairfield County | 351,756 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aquarion-Stamford | 119,214 | 0 (not detected) |
| Danbury Water Department | 62,055 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aquarion-Greenwich | 53,297 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Norwalk Electric & Water | 42,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Norwalk First Taxing District | 40,256 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aquarion-Darien | 18,737 | 2 ppb |
| Aquarion-New Canaan | 10,097 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bethel Water Dept | 9,507 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aquarion-Ridgefield | 7,476 | 3.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Danbury, 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 Cedar Terrace Prop Owners Assn whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1510 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.