Durham Elderly Housing Division, CT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Durham Elderly Housing Division at a glance
Durham Elderly Housing Division serves about 50 people through 25 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: CT0380641; phone on file: 860-349-3625. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Durham Elderly Housing Division's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Durham Elderly Housing Division is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Durham Elderly Housing Division's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Connecticut and the 3rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Middlesex County
45 other systems share Middlesex County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Durham Elderly Housing Division. 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 Durham, CT
Look up your address in Durham Elderly Housing Division's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Durham Elderly Housing 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.