Eldridge Elderly Housing, CT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 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.
Who runs the water here
Eldridge Elderly Housing serves about 40 people through 21 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 Litchfield County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: CT0878021; phone on file: 860-567-7430. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Eldridge Elderly Housing is 15 ppb across 21 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 5 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 8 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 9 ppb |
| 2020 | 5 ppb |
| 2019 | 8 ppb |
| 2019 | 10 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 6 ppb |
| 2017 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 9 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
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. Eldridge Elderly Housing's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 4th percentile in Connecticut and the 2nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
72 other systems share Litchfield County; 50 of them have a higher latest lead result than Eldridge Elderly Housing. 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
Look up your address in Eldridge Elderly Housing'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 Eldridge 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.