Snug Harbor Development Corp, CT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Snug Harbor Development Corp at a glance
Snug Harbor Development Corp serves about 144 people through 39 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fairfield County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: CT0340231; phone on file: 203-792-2793. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 6 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Snug Harbor Development Corp is 7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 7 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
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. Snug Harbor Development Corp's 1 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Connecticut and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Fairfield County
58 other systems share Fairfield County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than Snug Harbor Development Corp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aquarion-Eastern Fairfield County | 351,756 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aquarion-Stamford | 119,214 | 0 (not detected) |
| Danbury Water Department | 62,055 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aquarion-Greenwich | 53,297 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Norwalk Electric & Water | 42,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Norwalk First Taxing District | 40,256 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aquarion-Darien | 18,737 | 2 ppb |
| Aquarion-New Canaan | 10,097 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bethel Water Dept | 9,507 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aquarion-Ridgefield | 7,476 | 3.1 ppb |
Next steps for Danbury, CT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Danbury, 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 Snug Harbor Development Corp 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.