Lindhbrook Water Company, CT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.8 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
About Lindhbrook Water Company
Lindhbrook Water Company serves about 200 people through 63 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Washington County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: RI1000098; phone on file: 860-307-4626. 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 30.9 ppb from 33.7 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lindhbrook Water Company is 33.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 33.7 ppb over 15 |
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. Lindhbrook Water Company's 2.8 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Connecticut and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Washington County
1 other system shares Washington County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Lindhbrook Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ninigret Realty | 109 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Harwinton, 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 Lindhbrook Water Company whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3000 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.