Chatham Acres Elderly Housing, CT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.6 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. 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.
About Chatham Acres Elderly Housing
Chatham Acres Elderly Housing serves about 50 people through 41 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Middlesex County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: CT0424011; phone on file: 860-267-8498. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Chatham Acres Elderly Housing's lead record
That is up 3 ppb from 0.6 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Chatham Acres Elderly Housing is 14 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 14 ppb over 10 |
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. Chatham Acres Elderly Housing's 3.6 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Connecticut and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Middlesex County
45 other systems share Middlesex County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Chatham Acres Elderly Housing. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Middletown Water Department | 41,019 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cromwell Fire District Water Department | 14,316 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Shoreline Region-Chester System | 5,030 | 0 (not detected) |
| Portland Water Department | 5,010 | 0 (not detected) |
| Connecticut Valley Hospital | 2,928 | 0 (not detected) |
| Durham Center Division | 1,601 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Jensens Beechwood System | 750 | 1.7 ppb |
| Ctwc - Spice Hill Division | 712 | 0 (not detected) |
| Edgemere Condominium Assn., Inc. | 540 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yeshiva Of Waterbury-Durham Campus | 490 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for East Hampton, CT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; East Hampton, 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 Chatham Acres Elderly Housing 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.