Ctwc - Forest Homes Division, CT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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. 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.
Ctwc - Forest Homes Division at a glance
Ctwc - Forest Homes Division serves about 100 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hartford County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: CT0790011; phone on file: 860-944-9655. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (2.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ctwc - Forest Homes Division is 24 ppb across 16 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 24 ppb over 15 |
Against other Connecticut systems
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. Ctwc - Forest Homes Division's 1.2 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Connecticut and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
46 other systems share Hartford County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ctwc - Forest Homes Division. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan District Commission | 390,887 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Northern Reg-Western System | 101,313 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Britain Water Department | 73,534 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bristol Water Department | 52,079 | 0 (not detected) |
| Manchester Water Department | 51,198 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southington Water Department | 43,069 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hazardville Water Company | 18,544 | 0.7 ppb |
| Aquarion-Plainville Regional | 18,231 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Unionville System | 14,693 | 2.4 ppb |
| Aquarion-Simsbury Regional | 14,691 | 0.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Clinton, 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 Ctwc - Forest Homes Division 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.